Okay im probably just being retarded...but i keep getting docked points on my C++ programs for not having initialization lists. The thing is i dont recall my prof going over them and if he did he called them something different. Ive got a few classes that require me to initialize their private data members such as item ID and item name...can someone give me an example of what this might look like so i can see what im doing wrong.

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This should be nothing more than a run of assignment statements for your data members:

object::member==value;
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etc...

I think they are forcusing on it because C++ doesn't do any default initializations on variables and object data members and this can actually cause a tremendous number of problems for many in-experienced programmers. In this case I would agree with them because I've seen myself create the same error in programming many times and have seen the results. It's not so common now but since you can't predict the results, it's hard to prevent unless you have each and every constructor initialize your data members.

borelli35

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