Re: Overloading Subscript operator
On 2007-04-02 19:40, raan wrote:
What I am trying to achieve here is depicted in the small program
below.
// Wrapit.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <map>
#include <list>
using namespace std;
class A
{
private:
string a;
string b;
string c;
public:
A(){}
};
class B
{
private:
string a;
string b;
string c;
public:
B(){cout << "B constructor is being called \n";}
};
class C
{
private:
map<string, A *> aobj;
map<string, B *> bobj;
public:
C(){cout << "Constructor of C called \n";}
template <class T>
T& operator [] (string key)
{
cout << "Operator [] called \n";
return new A(); //if the key has a particular text in it return
new A
// otherwise return new B();
}
};
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
C c;
c["abcd"] = new A();
c["efgh"] = new B();
return 0;
}
Obviously the above program will give you compiler errors.
I am trying to put a wrapper around the maps. And the insertion to the
maps is done through an
(eg . c["abcd"] = new A()) overloaded [] operator. Further I want to
use just one [] version of the function, but inside I will determine
whether I should return a new A() or a new B(). The string I recieved
as argument will have enough information for me to decide which object
to be returned. How would i do it.
I'm 99.99% sure you can't. Not unless you make both A and B inherit from
a common base-class and return that. You must remember that templates
are compile-time constructs so they can't depend on anything that isn't
known at compiletime.
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