[fpc-devel] Copy/move operator

[Sven Barth]

Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 19. Juni 2019, 23:45:

> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:02 PM Ryan Joseph <genericptr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It’s used for making reference counted types at the user level.
>>
>
> I'm not sure why you'd necessarily need to implement Copy specifically for
> that kind of thing, though. Initialize and Finalize would be much more
> relevant, I'd say.
>

You need a Copy operation if you need to take some action during that
operation. Main example is adjusting a reference count so that a class
instance can be freed at the correct time (smart pointer).

Regards,
Sven

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