From: Warren Young
Date: October 6 2006 8:39pm
Subject: Re: mysql++ memory usage
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Matt Dargavel wrote:
> 
> you shouldn't really pass a member variable object into the
> base class constructor as it won't have been initialised yet.  The MS C++
> std library implementation allows you to do what I believe the original
> intention was, as follows:

Good work, you two.

I think what I'm going to have to do is special-case VC++ here.  While 
RAII has its points, I'm nervous about passing an uninitialized object 
into the base class ctor.  I'll get something into svn tonight, and you 
all can comment on it if you care to.