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Making a copy of constructor arguments in C++

By slacy|General|5 Comments

Okay, maybe my C++ is getting rusty, but I’m stammering at coming up with a reasonable solution to this problem: Imagine a class, like this one: class Foo { public: Foo(string &name) : name_(name.c_str()) { } private: char *name_; } As you can see, it takes the guts of the string argument passed to the [...]