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Re: skipping __init__ and using exploiting a class member instead

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In article <0e9b51a9-bd78-4d34-b277-c463347e8e02@googlegroups.com>,
 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. 

One of the problems with C++ is that it's such a huge language, nobody 
knows all of it.  Most people learn some subset of the language that 
they get comfortable with (often because that's the subset that's used 
on the project they're working on).  Then it's easy to assume that the 
part you know is all there is to know.

Personally, I barely know the STL (because the various C++ projects I've 
worked on all predated the STL and rolled their own container classes).  
Likewise for most of the std streams library.

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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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