Subj : Re: how to initialize this?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
Date : Thu Oct 16 2003 08:23 am

Eric <nospam@email.com> writes:

> I was afraid of that (that i might not be very clear). What i am basically 
> trying to do is to have an array of Farm structures each containing the 
> same Animals. I want to intialize the animal names at compile time.

Is your problem that arrays are not "first class" entities in C and C++
and thus can't be copy-constructed nor copy-assigned?


If yes, you could wrap the array type into a struct type:

struct TAnimal
{
  char const *Name;
  int Value;
};

struct TFarm
{
  TAnimal population[3];
};

TFarm const farmTemplate =
{
  {
    {"dog", 0},
    {"horse", 4},
    {"cow", 6}
  }
};

TFarm Farm0(farmTemplate);
TFarm Farm1(farmTemplate);
TFarm Farm2(farmTemplate);


Adding another animal would involve changing the array size and farmTemplate's
initializer. If you forget the former, the compiler will tell you.

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