Checking if a variable is initialized

Question

Seems like this would be a duplicate, but maybe it is just so obvious it hasn\'t been asked...

Is this the proper way of checking if a variable (not pointer) is init

Answer 1

There's no reasonable way to check whether a value has been initialized.

If you care about whether something has been initialized, instead of trying to check for it, put code into the constructor(s) to ensure that they are always initialized and be done with it.