Re: what is my mistake

From:
"osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:39:17 -0800
Message-ID:
<5ojop5Fmh0jgU1@mid.individual.net>
"Dave Shooter" wrote:

CuTe_Engineer wrote:

hii,

can you tell me plzz why my programme doesn`t work ,i don`t have any
errors and every thing is fine but i don`t know why it`s not
working ,
soo plz can you help me un finding my mistake
i will past the proramme here ,


<snip>

class Patient:public Gymnasium , public Nutrition,public Regime
{
public:
    void set(string,int,string,int,string,double);
    void get(string&,int& ,string& ,int&,string&,double&)const;
    void print();
    Patient(string= "",int=0,string="",int=0,string=0,double=0);
    double calories(); // find the difference between gained & lost
calories and
                            //and sub. it from the energy
private:
    person info;
    Regime regimePlan;
};


<snip>

Public inheritance models an 'is-a' relationship between entities where,
generally, the derived class (eg Patient) is a specialised version of
the more general base class. The Patient declaration here effectively
states that a Patient is a kind of Gymnasium, is a kind of Nutrition and
is a kind of Regime. Obviously I don't have the specification for your
program, but in terms of Object-Orientated Design, the use of multiple
inheritance here doesn't strike me as a correct design choice.


In particular, note that a gymnasium is a building and a patient is a human
being. Note also that a patient "is -a" Regime and it also *has* a Regime.
Usually, it would be one or the other ("is-a", "has-a"). If you were
earlier given a less cumbersome assignment to learn inheritance, now would
be a good time to go back and do it.

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