Re: API freeze break request: gtkmm: Gtk::Plug

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:25:16 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> Dear GNOME release-team,
> 
> Could we have 2 release-team API-freeze-break approvals for this small
> gtkmm API addition please? It adds a default constructor, which takes no
> arguments, so it can't really be wrong. It's needed by Coaster.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164935

Looks simple and straightforward.  1 of 2.


An off-topic comment/question, though.  I noticed the following in the
patch (in the "context" region):

explicit Plug(const Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Display>& display,
GdkNativeWindow socket_id);

Why would a constructor with more than one parameter need or want the
explicit keyword (not that it hurts or anything, but I was just
curious if I was missing something from the newer C++ standard or if
somehow I missed an alternate use for the keyword somehow...)?