Re: What do you call this construct?
joe wrote:
Curious if this type of construct has a name, or is a recognized
design pattern:
class Function
{
public:
Function() { // do loads of work here in the Constructor, store result
in m_result }
operator double() { return m_result;} //Automatic Type Conversion
private:
double m_result;
};
with the expected simple usage:
double value = Function();
Is there some recognized caveat to the above? I don't see it used
very often.
What's the advantage of that class implementation over, say,
double Function() {
double _result;
// do loads of work here, store the result in _result
return _result;
}
? I don't see any in your code. And the syntax looks pretty much
like a function call, so it would be very confusing to somebody
reading the code to learn that 'Function' is not a function at all.
V
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