Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > I have another question for you: why does JAVA enforce that a constructor of > a base-class must be called prior to everything else in the derived class's > constructor? Well, I can imagine it's done to make sure that the base(s) are properly constructed. Sound s sensible to me.
> No way to do some computing for parameters that I want to pass > to the parent constructor... Try this: Derived::Dreived() : Base(calcParam1(), calcParam2()) ... > Besides, this automatically base-constructor-calling only happens for the > most trivial of cases - the no-argument-constructors. Well, the language can at least ensure that theconstructor is called - i.e. either call it automatically if it can be called without parameters, or fail with error. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list