Thread: Type checking

Originally Posted by h3ro

I cant. They have to be in the same array.


There will never be a mix between then and never more then two car types. The project is done, adding up scores at the end is the only part that is left

There are a lot of things you could do without interrogating the type. As Elysia suggested, keep them (smart pointers to them) in separate arrays as well as the main array. Or add a reportTime() member function, and have each type report to a singleton object that stores the total time - one for raceCars, one for crapCars.

Or if there are only ever going to be two types, maybe interrogating the type isn't so bad, but I'd still feel dirty doing it.

Or if there are only ever going to be two types, maybe interrogating the type isn't so bad, but I'd still feel dirty doing it

Same here. I want for the easy solution for this, I now have a virtual function called getType(). Not so sexy, but it works.