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

[Billy O'Connor <billyoc gnuyork org>]

Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> writes:

> 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...)?

I thought that explicit would have an effect if a constructor has
multiple arguments and all but one of the arguments has a default
value.

-- 
Billy