Whats the difference between new Foo; and new Foo();

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Published on 2010-04-16T04:13:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 4:23 UTC
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Can someone please explain what is the different between calling new like:

foo = new QtWidget();

I noticed alot of Qt's examples do this:

foo = new QtWidget;

I tried to Google this but didn't come up with anything.

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