Hi Jan, On Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 04:31 PM, Jan Gaspar wrote:
overwritten. Now if there will be the assignment idiom applied the front-most will be assigned to the new one - it will be not destroyed (no destructor will be called). IMHO this is not correct. The old element will not disappear - just its value/state will be different. I think that the overwrite operation means destruction of the old object, NOT assignment. What do you think?
I don't see how it makes any difference from the semantic point of view. Other than tracing calls to destructors, are there any other ways to tell the difference? Another note about the documentation... whichever way this issues end up, more needs to be said about it in the docs. Currently, the docs say "overwrite" which to me sounds like assignment, and the docs never mention destroying the objects. I think you either need to give a technical definition for what you mean by "overwrite", or better yet, use different words. Cheers, Jeremy