4af
Subj : Re: how to initialize this?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Eric <nospam@email.com>
Date : Thu Oct 16 2003 09:06 pm

Thomas Maeder [TeamB] wrote:

> 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
..
ok, thanks I'll play with that
Eric

.

0