
Default Constructor is a Must When Instantiating Arrays
When an array of object is instantiated, the default constructor (and only the default constructor) of each member is invoked automatically. If you define no constructors at all, the compiler

When an array of object is instantiated, the default constructor (and only the default constructor) of each member is invoked automatically. If you define no constructors at all, the compiler

Struct instances created on the stack are uninitialized (i.e., contain garbage values). The easiest, most efficient, and future-proof way to initialize them is: struct PlainData {char [20] name;long ID;char [15]

In Swing 0.7, and probably later versions as well, the DefaultListModel class notifies its ListDataListeners every time a new element is added to the list model. For very large lists

C-style I/O is still supported in C++. However, the iostream objects offer 2 advantages over the printf() family: type safety and support for user-defined types. Consider the following example: void

Multi-dimensional arrays can be represented by arrays of arrays. For example, suppose that you want to create a 3×3 matrix, called Brady, and fill it with the strings shown in

The class java.io.PushbackInputStream in JDK 1.1.3 returns the wrong value from its available() method. If you look at the source code, it returns pos + super.available(); when it should really

This bug workaround identifies Windows operating systems and adds an identifier to the absolute root directory path to avert file problems. File root;String tmp;tmp = System.getProperty(“user.dir”);root = new File(tmp);while((tmp =

Using operator new (or malloc() in C) to create objects on the heap is expensive in terms of performance (allocating heap memory usually involves a long negotiation with the OS),

Objects created using new [] must be released using delete [] as in this example. It