Re: mutual dependency

From:
Saeed Amrollahi <amrollahi.saeed@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:05:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<3ec8fcd6-a51b-4934-a69a-ff4314fde89a@a31g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 30, 3:21 pm, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

Saeed Amrollahi wrote:

On Oct 30, 11:47 am, thomas <freshtho...@gmail.com> wrote:

-------------code------------
class A{
public:
     A(){}
     void f(){
           B *b = new B();
     }

};

class B{
public:
      B(){}
      void f(){
          A *a = new A();
      }};

---------------code------------
for the above sample code, there's compile error.
if I put a declaration "class B;" at the begining, it says that no
default constructor.
how to declare a default constructor to avoid the compile error?


[..]

FYI, such mutual dependency isn't good sign of object-oriented design.


Really? Why is that?

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Hi Victor
I just mean, with a good design, we can avoid such mutual
dependencies.
I face with the following code patterns a lot of times:
class A {
  B* pB;
};

class B {
  A* pA;
};

with a review on class design I can avoid such "mutual" dependencies.

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