mpq_class documentation is not explicit about canonicalization

Marc Glisse marc.glisse at inria.fr
Tue Feb 9 11:53:35 CET 2010


On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, gsauthof at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote:

> the paragraph about the mpq_class(integer num, integer den) constructor
> does not state if the rational num/den needs to be in canonical form.
> [1]

Actually, this is specified globally for the whole page in the first 
sentence.

> PS: Btw, prefixing the constructor name with 'void' gives the wrong
> impression that this is valid C++ syntax and/or that constuctors may
> have return values ...

Indeed.

-- 
Marc Glisse


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