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Googler here. We avoid doing "work" in constructors as per the style guide: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Doing_Work_in_Constru

• lmm 12y ago
  Yeah, that's pretty much what you have to do, and go back to a C-style init method. But then you've lost the benefits of RAII, and you can't necessarily use those types with templates (which won't know about your init method).