it is hard to judge get() success or not?

[m2mer]

template
T LinkedList::get(int index){
ListNode *tmp = getNode(index);

return (tmp ? tmp->data : T());

}
no matter success or not, an instance of T is returned, so how to judge?

[RyanAveryBSU]

I'm confused. If there is no data, a new object is malloc'd and returned? or what is going on here...

[CAHEK7]

If there is no data, a new object of type T is default-constructed and returned.
For simple types like int\char it won't allocate memory, just put zero value into some register and return.