I have set up an online poll:

    http://snappoll.com/poll/130337.php

to ask C++ programmers whether they want aggregate initialiser syntax to be
added to the Standard. Here's is how it works:

    struct MyAgg { int a; double b; };

    class MyClass {
    private:

        int const arr[3];
        MyAgg agg;

    public:

        MyClass(int const a,int const b,int const c)
          : arr( {a,b,c} ), agg( {b, c * 5.4} )
        {
            /* Function Body */
        }
    };

And also:

    int *const p = new int[3]({5,4,3});
    MyAgg *const p = new MyAgg({3,56.3});

The reason I set up the poll is to possibly demonstrate to the Standards
Committee that programmers feel that this is a fundamental programming
function, and should be provided by the language. (They haven't paid much
attention to the request of late).

--

Frederick Gotham

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In article <x%INg.13657$j7.330154@news.indigo.ie>, Frederick Gotham
<fgothamNO@SPAM.com> writes
>The reason I set up the poll is to possibly demonstrate to the Standards
>Committee that programmers feel that this is a fundamental programming
>function, and should be provided by the language. (They haven't paid much
>attention to the request of late).
>
Please take the time to read the papers  already on the table about
initialisation. Bjarne Stroustrup, Lois  Goldthwaite, Gabriel Dos Reis
and I are all involved in the issue. What  we are currently working on
is far ahead of what you are suggesting and considers many more aspects
of initialisation than your proposals.

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Author of 'You Can Do It!' and "You Can Program in C++"
see http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit
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