I STILL haven't gotten a good technical reason why parameters to constrUCtors for arrays haven't been at least talked out (I'm not a committee member, so I don't know if this has been shot down informally, so if it has, forgive my lack of knowledge on this).
I even asked The Man himself, and his response was basically that he didn't see much need for it. I know I run into instances on occasion where I want to specify something that is constant over an entire array of objects. For example, something even as simple as "name".
Object array1[100]("Member of array1"); Object array2[100]("Member of array2");
I suppose templates serve much the same purpose, but it just seems so damned inconsistent to not have parameters to constructors for arrays!
Sure, there's the old trick:
Object::name = "Member of array1"; Object array[100]; Object::name = "Member of array2"; etc. etc.
Formally speaking, this is *not* guaranteed to work. Practically, I would be interested in hearing about a plausible implementation where it will not actually work. (Finding the correct standardese which would permit guaranteeing this to work without causing problems elsewhere is a non-trivial problem, however.)
