Re: array as member of class

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 8 Aug 2007 03:20:41 -0700
Message-ID:
<8Pgui.271$Gp6.196@newsfe05.lga>
"Florian B?rzle" <fbuerzle@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:46b98f5d$0$20989$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net...

Ian Collins wrote:

The array size has to be a compile time constant, it has to be known
when each translation unit that include the header is compiled.

You can either put the value in the header (say a static const unsigned
member), or use a dynamic array.


Thanks for the quick reply. Can you give me a hint how to implement such
a dynamic array in this case? (Sorry if this is trivial, but I've never
used dynamic arrays).


Pick one. My preference is Foo.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

extern const int dim; //dimension of the array

const int dim = 10;

class Foo
{
public:
    Foo( const int Size )
    {
        x.resize( Size );
    }
    std::vector<double> x;
};

class Foo2
{
public:
    Foo2()
    {
        x.resize( dim );
    }
    std::vector<double> x;
};

class Bar
{
public:
    Bar( const int Size ) { x = new double[ Size ]; }
    ~Bar() { delete[] x; }
    double* x;
};

class Bar2
{
public:
    Bar2() { x = new double[ dim ]; }
    ~Bar2() { delete[] x; }
    double* x;
};

int main()
{
    Foo foo( dim );
    Foo2 foo2;
    Bar bar( dim );
    Bar2 bar2;

    return 0;
}

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