Re: [setup] Why does PackageSpecificationhaveaprivatecopy-constructor? (Robert?)

2004-09-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 08:12 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > Have you heard of the 'rule of 3' ? > > No. Apparently I need to do some reading. http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/coding-standards.html#faq-27.9 "A class with any of {destructor, assignment operator, copy co

Re: [setup] Why does PackageSpecificationhaveaprivatecopy-constructor? (Robert?)

2004-09-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 23:42 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Unless we add explicit copy-constructors to every single class, I'd rather just leave it out and let the compiler handle things implicitly? It seems cleaner to me. I think you'll find every class that has a destructor also