BM> How would you define "ascribing to much responsibility to the 
BM> constructor?"
I was taught that the constructor was a marvelous place to INITIALIZE
variables, not more.
BM> manifest::manifest(){ 
BM>      filename = new char[FILENAME_MAX]; 
BM>      while (!select(filename, FILENAME_MAX - 1)); 
BM>      mstreamp = new ifstream(filename); 
BM> }
That's more than variable initialization.  Since you can't call a
constructor directly in your code, you're limiting youself as to
code-reusability.
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