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elgnoh
elgnoh

Reputation: 523

Set default for class member function's struct input

I have the following code, and would like to give default value for param3. I have tried various attempts, and compiler's error msg seems to be saying in class non-int initialization is not allowed. Is this a bad practice and why? What's a better approach from a OO perspective?
thanks

struct MyStruct 
{ 
    int a; 
    int b;
};
class myClass {
    public:
        void init(int param1 = 0, int param2 = 0, MyStruct param3);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 240

Answers (4)

Alan Klaassen
Alan Klaassen

Reputation: 91

Probably the simplest and clearest way to solve a problem like this would be to do something like this:

class myClass {
  public:
    void init(int p1 = 0, int p2 = 0)
    {
       MyStruct s; //initialize this to whatever default values
       init(p1, p2, s);
    }
    void init(int p1, int p2, MyStruct p3);
}

Upvotes: 0

Raydel Miranda
Raydel Miranda

Reputation: 14360

You could add a constructor and a default constructor MyStruct and make a constant default value like this:

struct MyStruct { 
    int a; 
    int b;
    MyStruct(int x, int y):a(x), b(y) {} // Constrctor.
    MyStruct():a(0), b(0) {}             // Default constrctor.
};

const MyStruct default_(3, 4);           // for instance here by default a == 3 and b == 4

class myClass {
    public:
        void init(int param1 = 0, int param2 = 0, MyStruct param3 = default_);
};

Upvotes: 1

Englund
Englund

Reputation: 1117

This will work in C++0x.

struct MyStruct 
{ 
    int a; 
    int b;
};

function foo(int a, structure s = structure{10,20}) 
{
    //Code
}

Upvotes: 0

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 6424

The following will work (at least with C++11):

void init(int param1 = 0, int param2 = 0, MyStruct param3 = MyStruct{ 2, 3 });

Upvotes: 0

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