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Re: Q: default constructor for fundamental types?

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From: Jamshid Afshar
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 01:14
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In article <9602271131.AA18225@lts.sel.alcatel.de>,
James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763  <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:
>Expressions of the form `int()' have always been allowed.  A (fairly)
>recent change to the draft standard states that they have the same
>value as default static initialization (in this case, 0).  The earlier
>rules had the initailization undefined.

Is the following legal?

	class Foo {
	   int x;
	public:
	   Foo()
	     : x()   // legal?
	   {}
	};

and if so is it different than just:

	Foo::Foo() {}

--Jam
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