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Hopefully these will have short answers, and aren't inappropriate for
the newsgroup.

1) Is there any way to catch an exception thrown in the constructor of
a statically constructed object?  Does it call unexpected() or
terminate() even?

2) From a previous post on this group, it looks like the standard will
allow one to define conversion operators for pre-existing, source code
untouchable data types.  Yes? No? What will this look like? I have the
May copy of the WP, and don't see any mention of this.

3) I often write what I call "pure wrapper" classes to give access
protection and data abstraction to pre-existing data types.  A pure
wrapper class is a class that adds no member variables or virtual
member functions to a class/struct that has no virtual functions of
its own, so their size and alignment should be the same and casting
between the two should be perfectly safe.  The new standard doesn't
have any special support (for example, allowing it automatically) for
this, does it?

4) With RTTI, a derived class that doesn't change any virtual member
funcs or add any properties to a base class still evaluates to a
different object type, correct?

Thanks for any and all answers.

Andrew Bell
abell@mindspring.com
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