On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacio...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You certainly don't have to write a constructor for a subclass in C++. > > Ahh, this message board is so collectively well informed (once you get past > the trolls) > > The C++ project I worked on was religious about always overwriting parent > class constructors. I had assumed this was because the language proper forbid > it, but apparently it was just project protocol.
Minor point: In C++, you don't overwrite constructors; you simply add your own. By the time a derived class's constructor is called, the parents' have all already been called. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
