On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 01:59:18PM -0700, Lawrence Crowl wrote: > With the constructor, you don't have to remember and you don't > have to type more. If you have a variable, you know that it is > properly initialized.
But we really don't want hundreds or thousands of dynamic constructors for global variables. For many people the time to compile (almost) empty file is very important, we are already bad about that right now, initializing too much stuff dynamically is going to make it worse. Jakub