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

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:23 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 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...)?

It's useless. It's often in our generated code, because it's not
actually a problem, and I guess we copy/pasted it there too.

Now I know you know C++.
 
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