What is "View() = default" in C++? [duplicate]

Question

It's a syntax I've never seen in C++.

See the following:

class View
{
    private:
    int screenSize;
    int screenScale; //"the ZOOM"
    Point origin;
public:
    const int minScreenSize = 6;
    const int maxScreenSize = 30;

    View():screenSize(25),screenScale(2),origin(-10,-10){}
    ~View() = default;
    View(const View&) = default;
    View(View&&) = default;
    View& operator=(const View&) = default;
    View& operator=(View&&) = default;
    View& myAdd() = delete;
}

What is the meaning of:

View() = default and View() = delete?

Thanks in advance.

Constructor() = default; means that you explicitly want the compiler to generate the default constructor for that class Constructor() = delete; means that you explicitly forbid the usage of that constructor. — adnan_e
– adnan_e, Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 10:18
see here en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/default_constructor — Alexander Stepaniuk
– Alexander Stepaniuk, Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 10:18
Duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/6502828/…, please make a quick search on Google before posting! — Sylvain B
– Sylvain B, Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 10:18

Jesper Juhl · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-16 10:20:45Z

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It tells the compiler to generate a default "default constructor" for your class.

This was introduced in C++11.

The counterpart is = delete; which would instruct the compiæer to not generate the function.

= default; is preferable to an empty user defined consteuctor {} since used defined destructors are never trivial by definition (even when they are empty), but the compiler generated function is.

More detail here:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/member_functions#Special_member_functions

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/default_constructor

answered Jul 16, 2016 at 10:20

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