Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/25/07 09:41

Sanders Kaufman wrote:

> In your case, every time my object is initialized, it would make TWO
> function calls, instead of one - one to the constructor, and one to the
> init().

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=premature+optimisation

For heaven's sake, this is a *database* class. The overhead of an extra
function call is the *least* of your worries.

Whenever you have to choose between code efficiency and readability,
choose readability: development time is more expensive than CPU time.

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