I want to have a reference data member in a class, but I do not want to initialize it in the constructor.
How could I do this?
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I want to have a reference data member in a class, but I do not want to initialize it in the constructor.
How could I do this?
That is not possible, you have to initialize reference data members inside ctor initialization list. If you really have to do something like this, use a pointer to the data member instead of reference. Initialize pointer to
NULLin ctor and then initialize it correctly whenever you want.