Rule of three

January 21, 2006 9:57 PM | C/C++ | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

If your class needs a destructor, it probably needs a copy destructor and an assignment operator too. In other words, you can look at it this way:


T::T()

T::~T()

T::T(const T&)

T::operator=(const T&)

In the long run it is probably a better idea to make it a habit always to include all of these for a given class, just in case.

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