The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition

17. Construction, Cleanup, Copy, and Move

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

– Charles Darwin

• Introduction

• Constructors and Destructors

Constructors and Invariants; Destructors and Resources; Base and Member Destructors; Calling Constructors and Destructors; virtual Destructors

• Class Object Initialization

Initialization Without Constructors; Initialization Using Constructors; Default Constructors; Initializer-List Constructors

• Member and Base Initialization

Member Initialization; Base Initializers; Delegating Constructors; In-Class Initializers; static Member Initialization

• Copy and Move

Copy; Move

• Generating Default Operations

Explicit Defaults; Default Operations; Using Default Operations; deleted Functions ...