Re: how to know the object's type?
On 13 aug, 22:23, Joshua Maurice <joshuamaur...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 12, 8:52 am, Christian Hackl <ha...@sbox.tugraz.at> wrote:
zl2k ha scritto:
Suppose I create an instance of a class (Class Foo). Then I put the
object into an contenor. Later on, I take it out from the contenor.
How can I know the object is of Class Foo? It looks dumb to put a
classname as id within the class. Does c++ provides some function say=
,
object.getType() and returns Foo? Thanks.
This sounds a lot like Java-influenced thinking.
Perhaps, but the design would be just as bad in Java as in C++. In
\nearly\ all well designed programs, you should not explicitly query
an object for its type as part of normal operations.
There can be good reasons. For example for detecting programming bugs:
T* T::clone() const
{
assert( typeid( *this ) == typeid( T ) );
// *this is real T
return new T( *this );
}
Problem of OP may be also is protection against bugs. If his
"contenor" can contain NonFoo but should only contain pure Foo's by
contract then detecting does not hurt.
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