> Gene Bushuyev<publicfil...@gbresearch.com>  writes:
>> What you're describing is this: your class needs to create another
>> complex or costly object, which it then uses as an organ donor to
>> initialize (or assign) its own members. Perhaps, if the class
>> contained that complex or costly object instead of its organs would
>> be a better design and made this procedure unnecessary.

> Certainly one way (...) it's a workaround, not "better design."

> If the intermediate value is small / doesn't consume too many
> resources, then whatever, maybe it's an _acceptable_ workaround, but
> it's still a workaround.

> [E.g., (...)]