Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> class Foo {
> ...
> std::size_t spare = 0
> std::size_t allocate = 4096
> std::size_t min_readline = 80
>
> and have the compiler know that if I specify a member initialiser in my
> my constructor, then that should be used, otherwise to default to using
> the value I say. (To avoid the inevitable search/replace if I want to
> change that value)
That's actually valid Java syntax (modulo a trailing C<;>). The default
value can be any expression (as long as it doesn't involve a reference
to the object being constructed, IIRC).
In fact Java provides a notion of instance initialiser, run before
any specific constructor you're invoking, that initialises such fields,
and may run other code.
The details aren't very clear to me, since I haven't written any Java
code since almost two years. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm
wrong /-/.
