[Development] Copying a struct the easy (perhaps too easy) way

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Wrong mailing list?

Il 16/09/23 01:41, Henry Skoglund ha scritto:
> S a;
> S b = a.clone();
> 
> it seems to work like a charm (6.5.2 on Linux and the Mac. 5.15.2 on
> Windows) but my question is if it's kosher?

You class has value semantics, so:

S b = a;


> I have bad memories from my MFC days in the previous century doing this
> simple cloning but maybe it's considered good code now...

Many types in MFC has value semantics as well (CString, COleDateTime, etc.).


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