From: Warren Young
Date: July 16 2007 11:59am
Subject: Re: Connection::connect() interface is changing
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Alex Burton wrote:
> I'm not sure that writing a different constructor is a reason to make a 
> subclass.

If MySQL++ weren't a C++ wrapper for a candy machine C interface, there 
would be more in these subclasses than just a ctor.  For all practical 
purposes, there are a whole lot of virtual functions in these subclasses 
with names that all begin with "mysql_".