Re: [Boost-users] Library Interface Design

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-14 00:23:58

At 9:06 PM -0700 9/13/06, Scott Meyers wrote:
[ snip ]
>I'll note that C++ itself allows "uninitialized" objects with
>constructors to be created all the time:
>
>    std::ofstream ofs;
>    std::vector<int>::iterator i;
>    std::string s;

Just a nit - I think that your third example is not like the others.
A std::string, AFAIK, constructed with the default constructor, is 
perfectly valid - just empty.

The other two - those, I'll give you ;-)
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