How would you write a Vector template class that checks the indexes passed to the [] operator to make sure they are correct....
Inheritance??
I have this so far
Code:template <class T> class Vector { public: Vector(); Vector(int size_t n); ~Vector(); std::vector<int> array; try{ array.at(1000) = 0; } catch(std::out_of_range o){ std::cout<<o.what()<<std::endl; }
Not sure I understand. Are you trying to derive a vector sub-class that provides bounds checking?
If so, vector::at() already does bounds checking. It throws a std::out_of_range exception if the value is not in the range.
Thus you use [] when you want the speed of an array, and at() when you don't want to hurt yourself (especially with calculated or arguement values which could be invalid).
Last edited by AH_Tze; 04-06-2005 at 07:18 PM.
Yes thats what i'm trying to do...derive a template vector sub-class that provides bound checking
In your child class, provide an at() function or redefine operator[] such that you do something special (throw an exception, for example) when the inputted index is equal to or greater than size().
