From: 0xCDCDCDCD@gmx.at   
      
   On 25.04.2012 20:31, Miles Bader wrote:   
   > Gene Bushuyev  writes:   
   >> What you're describing is this: your class needs to create another   
   >> complex or costly object, which it then uses as an organ donor to   
   >> initialize (or assign) its own members. Perhaps, if the class   
   >> contained that complex or costly object instead of its organs would   
   >> be a better design and made this procedure unnecessary.   
   >   
   > Certainly one way (...) it's a workaround, not "better design."   
   >   
   > If the intermediate value is small / doesn't consume too many   
   > resources, then whatever, maybe it's an _acceptable_ workaround, but   
   > it's still a workaround.   
   >   
   > [E.g., (...)]   
      
   Miles - maybe you could dig up one concrete example from your code base?   
   Would help to show what you mean ...   
      
   cheers,   
   Martin   
      
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