Anddos: I was just testing the invocation of constructor! And yes Alpha* will leave no doubts. But I was just experimenting.
CornedBee: Yeah Java is not C++. But C++ care for efficiency, much more than Java, so I was little surprised.
Mats: Yeah, I understand now, global objects are initialized before main.
laserlight: Thanks! Now I understand the order of the things!
Elysia: Should I quote you again? Um... leave it. It's been quoted 8 times already! Thanks!
Thanks all!
Hehe, btw, the reason the constructor is called is because it would otherwise leave the object in a "zombie state." When an object is created, it needs to initialize itself. It's an object, after all. Just like your console and your computer, it needs to "start itself up."
And because alpha is part of beta, it needs to "start itself up" so it can be used within beta.
Originally Posted by Adak
But this is about efficiency. C++'s ability to allocate objects directly - in static memory or on the stack - is a key efficiency point of C++ over Java.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
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