Learning to Program in C++

Caution: Construction Area

Now that we've disposed of the default constructor, let's take a look at the line in the string interface definition (Figure 7.1) that says string(char* p);.^[7] This is the declaration for another constructor; unlike the default constructor we've examined, this one has an argument, char* p.^[8]

^[7] I know we've skipped the copy constructor, the assignment operator, and the destructor. Don't worry, we'll get to them later.

^[8] There's nothing magical about the name p for a pointer. You could call it George if you wanted to, but it would just confuse people. The letter p is often used for pointers, especially by programmers who can't type, which unfortunately is fairly common.

As we saw in Chapter 6, the combination of the ...