Thread: Question about defining classes

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    Question about defining classes

    Hey, I am just wondering if a class definition can include two constructors, such as the following:

    Year(int days = 365, int weeks = 52, int months = 12);
    Year();

    Thanks (my intuition says yes and that the empty constructor would yield random values for the arguments...but my intuition tends to be wrong a lot )

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    Code:
    class Year
    {
    	Year(int days = 365, int weeks = 52, int months = 12);
    	Year();
    };
    
    
    int main()
    {
    	Year y; // Which constructor?
    }
    But you may have more than one constructor. You can't just set all defaults like that though.

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    Ah yep, makes sense. Thanks for the assistance.

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    Your class can have two (or more) constructors, but not like you posted. Constructors follow the same rules as regular functions in this situation.

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    Classes can have as many constructors as reasonably required; think std::string

    Code:
    std::string a = 'a';
    std::string b = "b";
    std::string c = a + b;
    The main point is to avoid ambiguity. For example, you shouldn't really provide a constructor for each of two objects which easily cast to each other.
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    void J(char*a){int f,i=0,c='1';for(;a[i]!='0';++i)if(i==81){
    puts(a);return;}for(;c<='9';++c){for(f=0;f<9;++f)if(a[i-i%27+i%9
    /3*3+f/3*9+f%3]==c||a[i%9+f*9]==c||a[i-i%9+f]==c)goto e;a[i]=c;J(a);a[i]
    ='0';e:;}}int main(int c,char**v){int t=0;if(c>1){for(;v[1][
    t];++t);if(t==81){J(v[1]);return 0;}}puts("sudoku [0-9]{81}");return 1;}

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