Is there a reason why we cannot have the following two declarations mean the same thing:

  auto Search search = new Search(rootDir, pattern, flags);

  Search search(rootDir, pattern, flags);

?

I like the idea.  The first way looks overly wordy, like C#.  ;)

Sean

"Matthew Wilson" <matthew@stlsoft.org> wrote in message news:bm7l81$25v2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Is there a reason why we cannot have the following two declarations mean
the
> same thing:
>
>   auto Search search = new Search(rootDir, pattern, flags);
>
>   Search search(rootDir, pattern, flags);
>
> ?