> While this has been asked indirectly previously, is the constructor for the Empty class strictly necessary, as it's redundant due to the implicit constructor already allocating required memory and no variables needing to be initialised with specific values or passed at all to the object. > > While I understand this makes no difference to code functionality, I would rather reduce redundancy, although don't want to incur any possible penalties from one branching choice or the other. > > Thank you, > Jacob Read