[Gerry Kan]

Howdy Foamers:

I have a C++ question. I think I know the answer empirically, but I don't know if my conception is correct.

I have created a DynamicList of some data type (let's call it "Type"). Its starts off with zero elements and I would like to append new terms in it. Currently I would have to declare a new instance in a dummy variable of this "Type" and append this into the list:

Foam::DynamicList<Type> myList(0);
Type dummy;
myList.append ( dummy );

From reading the code, I believe append() member function makes a copy of dummy into myList. So by that argument I should be able to declare the instance directly in the DynamicList without going through an intermediate variable, like this:

Foam::DynamicList<Type> myList(0);
myList.append ( new Type );

Okay, I know the new operator will give you a pointer to Type, instead of Type itself. Is there something that will achieve this, or through some kind of temp variable that can be used?

Thanks in advance, Gerry.