Thread: enum

Maybe the instructor is thinking of Java enums?
Enum Types (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)

Java programming language enum types are much more powerful than their counterparts in other languages. The enum declaration defines a class (called an enum type). The enum class body can include methods and other fields.

As far as C++ goes, I would think a std::map would work here (assignment requirements aside). A map stores (key, value) pairs. You can look up a value based on its key. In this case, student names or perhaps a student data type would be the value, and the student number would be the key.
map - C++ Reference

Originally Posted by jason_m

Maybe the instructor is thinking of Java enums?
Enum Types (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)


As far as C++ goes, I would think a std::map would work here (assignment requirements aside). A map stores (key, value) pairs. You can look up a value based on its key. In this case, student names or perhaps a student data type would be the value, and the student number would be the key.
map - C++ Reference

I 100% agree