Some useful links on c++ constructor

There are lot of issues around c++ constructors, and I have few links that may help;

http://billharlan.com/pub/papers/Managing_Cpp_Objects.html .

Google code style is a helpfull material for that also.

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Classes

constructors should initialize as a rule all member objects in the initialization list

http://www.parashift.com/c%2B%2B-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.6 .

Constructor Design, MSDN;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229060.aspx .

Copy constructor,

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Copy_Constructors .

C++ Idioms and Best Practices

http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~sean/projects/stlib/html/idioms.html .

One very important point (my learning), you should have default constructor defined, either private or public !

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