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reply Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
I see a lot of this in the DWT examples:

    new class() Listener { ... }

Didn't even know you could do that till I saw it in DWT.  But I just now 
ran across an example like this:

    new class Listener { ... }

Is there a difference?  If I had to guess I'd say the first one was 
creating a no-argument anonymous class template, but I have no idea why 
you'd want that instead of a regular anonymous class.

--bb
Apr 06 2008
parent reply Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:
Bill Baxter schrieb:

 I see a lot of this in the DWT examples:
 
    new class() Listener { ... }
 
 Didn't even know you could do that till I saw it in DWT.  But I just now 
 ran across an example like this:
 
    new class Listener { ... }
 
 Is there a difference?  If I had to guess I'd say the first one was 
 creating a no-argument anonymous class template, but I have no idea why 
 you'd want that instead of a regular anonymous class.
 
 --bb



I think they are the same. The () is the optional arguments list to the 
ctor call.
Apr 06 2008
next sibling parent John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:18:23 +0200, Frank Benoit wrote:


 Bill Baxter schrieb:

 I see a lot of this in the DWT examples:
 
    new class() Listener { ... }
 
 Didn't even know you could do that till I saw it in DWT.  But I just
 now ran across an example like this:
 
    new class Listener { ... }
 
 Is there a difference?  If I had to guess I'd say the first one was
 creating a no-argument anonymous class template, but I have no idea why
 you'd want that instead of a regular anonymous class.
 
 --bb



 I think they are the same. The () is the optional arguments list to the
 ctor call.




I thought the '()' were required in D.  I think I was getting errors when 
I removed the parenthesis.   Otherwise, it would make sense to drop them.

-JJR
Apr 06 2008
prev sibling parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Frank Benoit wrote:

 Bill Baxter schrieb:

 I see a lot of this in the DWT examples:

    new class() Listener { ... }

 Didn't even know you could do that till I saw it in DWT.  But I just 
 now ran across an example like this:

    new class Listener { ... }

 Is there a difference?  If I had to guess I'd say the first one was 
 creating a no-argument anonymous class template, but I have no idea 
 why you'd want that instead of a regular anonymous class.

 --bb



 I think they are the same. The () is the optional arguments list to the 
 ctor call.
 



That makes sense.  Now that I think about it, there wouldn't be much 
sense in making a template out of a class that will only ever have one 
instance.

--bb
Apr 06 2008