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Corby S. Hudnall wrote:
> 
> donald johnson wrote:
> >
> > I'm a bit confused about the need for constructors/destructors for
> > the Queue class.  I have a statically instantiated DLL as my only
> > variable.
> 
> statically instantiated as in:
> 
> template<class TYPE>
> class Queue {
> private:
>         DLL<TYPE> dll;
> ...
> 
> or statically instantiated as in:
> 
> template<class TYPE>
> class Queue {
> private:
>         static DLL<TYPE> dll;
> ...
> 
> I assume you mean the former since when I write the code:
> 
> Queue<int> q1, q2;
> ...
> 
> I want there to be two queues with two underlying DLLs rather than two
> queues with one underlying DLL.  Food for thought.
> 
> > I just put two inline 'structors...
> >      Queue () {};
> >      ~Queue () {};
> >
> 
> It's always a good idea to supply a constructor and/or destructor so
> that the compiler doesn't have to create a default one for you.  Even if
> there's no body now, there is no guarantee that at some point in the
> future you won't need them.  In short, better to have them and not need
> them then vice versa.
> 
> [snipped for brevity]
> 
> cheers
> Corby

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Corby S. Hudnall                 Senior, Spring 1998
Colorado State University        http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~hudnall
Department of Computer Science   hudnall@CS.ColoState.EDU

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