C++ question

[David Leimbach]

The object's lifetime begins at the when the constructor has completed.

Its lifetime ends at the beginning of the destructor.

At least that's how I think Herb Sutter put it.

I wouldn't personally try to call member functions
before the object's lifetime begins virtual or not.


On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 06:25 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> Can I call a pure virtual function in the constructor of the abstract
> class? That is
>
> class A
> {
> public:
>    A() { func(); }
>    virtual void func() = 0;
> };
>
> Michael.
>
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