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From: brangdon@cix.co.uk (Dave Harris)
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
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tslettebo@chello.no.nospam (=?Windows-1252?Q?Terje_Sletteb=F8?=) wrote 
(abridged):
> enum uninitialised_type { uninitialised };
> 
> std::vector constructor:
> 
> vector(size_t size, uninitialised_type); // Performs uninitialised
> construction
> 
> Not a non-trivial language change, at all. Just a library change.

The original request was for something like:

   int i = uninitialized;

which your proposal doesn't address. Although we could deal with the two 
situations with two separate changes, it would be nicer to have a single, 
uniform syntax. 

-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK

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