[RESOLVED] Initialisation Lists

[AGould]

Hi, was just going through my uni notes and found a question I can't find the answer to.

What is the difference between the following?

TextBox (const string &text, const Vector2f &position, bool visible) :
       _text(text), _position(position), _visible(visible) {}

And

TextBox (const string &text, const Vector2f &position, bool visible) :
       _position(position), _text(text), _visible(visible) {}

does it actually make a difference?

[laserlight]

There is no difference since the order of construction of member variables depends on their order of declaration in the class definition.

[AGould]

thank you.

[yuenqi]

If you open up your compiler then you may find the difference in the orders of variable initialization and nothing more than writing a+b in place of b+a.