new up
English
Etymology
The keyword new creates an object in C++ and derived languages.
Verb
new up
- (programming, informal, transitive) To create (an object) by calling its constructor.
- 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems
- If an exception occurs trying to new up bar1 or bar2, the TFoo part of the object won't have changed...
- 2003, "Jonathan Hoyle", Pointers? (on Internet newsgroup comp.lang.basic.realbasic)
- So you just new up the object you want and once its internal reference count drops to 0, the language deletes it (during a free time as a background thread).
- 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ gems