Re: RTTI and Multiple Dispatch

From:
Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:31:24 +0200
Message-ID:
<87pq79pm2b.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> writes:

On Aug 2, 9:46??am, Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Aug 2, 8:55??am, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 02.08.12 08:10, schrieb Gareth Owen:

What would people consider the most idiomatic way to create an
Rock-Paper-Scissors style game in C++

class Choice;
class Rock : public Choice;
class Scissors : public Choice;
class Paper : public Choice;


seems over the top. What's the difference between these classes?


I oversimplified. Suppose that these objects were more complicated
game pieces with their own movement characteristics


enum Type { MINE, ... };

class Spaceship {
   public:
     virtual void move();
     virtual void launch();
     int loc_x,loc_y;


       virtual Type type() const = 0;

}

class Mine : public Spaceship;


       virtual Type type() const { return MINE; }

class MineSweeper : public Spaceship;
class BattleShip : public Spaceship;


(idem)

(or use an attribute in Spaceship to avoid virtual calls overhead).

... with some fighting such that MineSweeper destroys Mine; Mine
destroys Battleship; Battleship destroys MineSweeper...


bool destroys(const Spaceship & s1, const Spaceship & s2)
{
        const static bool d [][] =
        {
             { true, false, ... }
             ...
        };
        return d[s1.type()][s2.type()]
}

or whatever implementation is suitable (You can put that in Spaceship.)

We're back to C here (treating enums as ints, but you can change this to
a switch). I know of no other good way to implement multiple dispatch in
C++. You could try:

class Mine : public Spaceship {

    virtual bool destroys(const Spaceship & s) const
    {
        s.destroys_mine(s); // or ()
    }
    virtual bool destroys_mine(const Mine & m) const { ... }
    virtual bool destroys_minesweeper(const MineSweeper & m) const { ... }
    ...
};

(with virtuals declared in Spaceship). You end up with N^2 + N methods
for N subclasses.

Common Lisp would have a great solution for this (defgeneric+defmethod).
Functional languages would use pattern-matching. But "classical" OO has
no good answer.

-- Alain.

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