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Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Peter Cacioppi
<peter.cacioppi@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

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skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 14:44 -0700
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-19 17:55 -0400
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 15:11 -0700
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 23:18 +0100
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-19 22:30 +0000
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 17:07 -0700
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 17:42 -0700
    Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-19 21:13 -0400
    Detecting whether a value was passed for a parameter (was: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-20 22:50 +1100
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 00:09 -0700
    Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-20 08:55 -0400
    Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-20 14:16 +0100
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 01:46 -0700
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 07:27 -0700
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 10:57 -0700
    Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-20 16:44 -0400
    Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 07:57 +1100
      Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 14:34 -0700
        Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-20 18:31 -0400
          Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-21 10:55 +1100
            Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-10-21 18:47 +0000
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 21:30 -0700
  Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 21:31 -0700
    Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead feedthetroll@gmx.de - 2013-10-21 00:16 -0700

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