All Questions
2 questions
6
votes
6
answers
5k
views
Should constructors ever be used only for side-effects?
Summary: Why is it wrong to design a constructor only for its side effects, and then to use the constructor without ever assigning its return value to a variable?
I'm working on a project that ...
- 179
27
votes
4
answers
10k
views
Legitimate "real work" in a constructor?
I am working on a design, but keep hitting a roadblock. I have a particular class (ModelDef) that is essentially the owner of a complex node tree built by parsing an XML schema (think DOM). I want to ...
- 389