Can Someone Translate this text

**Yarbles** · 01-17-2006

An initialiser list is the preferred method for assigning values to data members in class constructors. For example:

Code:

// initialise members to zero / null
planet::planet() : weight(0), newweight(0){} // strings are default initialised to a null string

or:

Code:

// initialise members to supplied values
planet::planet(const std::string& p, int w, int n) : plan(p), weight(w), newweight(n){}

If you initialise data members in the body of a constructor, it means that they are first default constructed, then assigned to. An initialiser list is more efficient as they are both constructed and initialised at the same time. This method is mandatory if a data member is a constant.

**Yarbles** · 01-17-2006

Ahem,

Code:

// initialise members to supplied values
planet::planet(const std::string& p, int w, float n) : plan(p), weight(w), newweight(n){}

**lanh215** · 01-17-2006

Hey guys and girls, I changed my program around a little, I just like to know if I'm going in the right direction from what is required above.

Code:

// this is my header file
class planet
{
private:
		float weight;
		float newweight;
		string plan;
public:
	planet();
	planet(float initweight, float initnewweight);
	float Getweight () const;
	float Getnewweight () const;
	void Write() const;
};
// followed by my .cpp file
#include "gravity.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

planet::planet()
{
	weight = 0;
	newweight = 0 ;
	plan = "Earth";
}
planet::planet(float initweight, float initnewweight)
{
	weight =  initweight;
	newweight = initnewweight;
	plan = initplanet;
}
planet::planet(string initplanet)
{
	plan = initplanet;
}

float planet::Getweight () const
{
	return weight;
}
float planet::Getnewweight () const
{
	return newweight;
}
void planet::Write () const
{
	cout << "your weight on " << plan << "is" << newweight << endl;
}
// followed by my client file
#include <iostream>
#include "gravity.h"

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	cout << "Please enter your weight" << endl;
	cin >> initweight;
	cout << "Please enter the planet you wish to know how much you weight on, if you were to enter an 
	incorrect planet name it will be assumed that Earth was your choice" << endl;
	cin >> initplanet;
	initweight.planet();
	initweight.Getweight();
	initweight.Write();
	return 0;
}

currently, I only wanted to check one thing, and that's calling the function. Apparently, I just don't know how.

**lanh215** · 01-17-2006

I broke it down to eight errors

Code:

/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/gravity.h:6: error: 'string' does not name a type
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:9: error: 'plan' was not declared in this scope
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:15: error: 'plan' was not declared in this scope
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:15: error: 'initplanet' was not declared in this scope
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp: At global scope:
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:17: error: expected `)' before "initplanet"
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:32: error: 'cout' was not declared in this scope
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:32: error: 'plan' was not declared in this scope
/Users/orbitgalaxy/scrap/main.cpp:32: error: 'endl' was not declared in this scope

**lanh215** · 01-17-2006

going crazy because I'm just going around and around in circles, so I'm just going to start the program over in scratch again. Starting with a piece of blank white paper.
Thanks for the help ladies and gentlemen. Forums are great, but I would rather have your aim and program while chatting. Oh, and if there are any hint at all, that anyone could give me on my rough journey into pencil and paper programming. Please let me know. I'll be here 24.
Thanks all

**what3v3r** · 01-17-2006

Code:

#include <string>

include it to your .h file and see what happens..

also use this

Code:

std::string plan;

instead of

Code:

string plan;

**lanh215** · 01-17-2006

Ok, forget every stupid thing I post, I figured it out.

well most of it, yay. However, the one part i'm stuck on is creating a function that takes a weight on Earth as an argument and returns the weight on the planet.
Let's say the planet is Mercury with a gravitational pull of 0.4155. And Earth with a gravitational pull of 1.0. How would I associate the string Earth with the float 1.0? and how do I take a "weight on earth as an argument" when the user inputs the string "Earth"? This is the only code I am stuck on, and I would really appreciate anyone's help on this one. Thanks a whole lot.

**JeremyCAFE** · 01-17-2006

Originally Posted by CornedBee

I claim - and Google agrees with me - that there is no such thing as an observer operator in C++ programming.

BTW, do you have to do it in C++? The introduction to typesafe enums in the Java5 documentation contains most of the code such a program would need in Java.

possibly they are supposed to overload an operator...or maybe they just have poor wording and are supposed to make a function that acts like an observer? heh

**lanh215** · 01-17-2006

Sorry, but fyi, there are theoretically three categories of basic operations, and they are constructors, transformers, and "observers." The observer function allows programmers to observe the state of an instance of an Abstract Data Type without changing it. Try googling it again with these concepts. Thanks for all the help guys

**laserlight** · 01-17-2006

there are theoretically three categories of basic operations, and they are constructors, transformers, and "observers." The observer function allows programmers to observe the state of an instance of an Abstract Data Type without changing it.

The thing is that the term 'operator' is not the same as the term 'function', so they should not be used interchangeably. That said, this "transformers/observers" concept sounds suspiciously like a "setters/getters" concept, and often setter and getter functions arent the best way of doing things.

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