Re: Class name

From:

Saeed Amrollahi <s_amrollahi@yahoo.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 22:17:24 -0700 (PDT)

Message-ID:

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On Apr 5, 4:51 am, worlman...@yahoo.com wrote:

Why the following header file - database.h must put

class Database;
class Table;

at the beginning?

Is that if I define multiple Class in a single .h file, then I need to
put all Class name at the beginning?

================
class Database;
class Table;

class Database
{
public:
        CnnPtr m_Cnn;
        char m_ErrStr[500];
        Database();
        bool Open(char* UserName, char* Pwd,char* CnnStr);
        bool Execute(char* CmdStr, Table& Tbl);
        void GetErrorErrStr(char* ErrStr);

};

class Table{
public:
        RecPtr m_Rec;
        char m_ErrStr[500];
        Table();
        void GetErrorErrStr(char* ErrStr);
        int ISEOF();
        HRESULT MoveNext();
        HRESULT MovePrevious();
        HRESULT MoveFirst();
        HRESULT MoveLast();

        bool Get(char* FieldName, char* FieldValue);
        bool Get(char* FieldName,SYSTEMTIME& FieldValue);
        bool Get(char* FieldName,float& FieldValue);
        bool Get(char* FieldName,double& FieldValue);
        bool Get(char* FieldName,double& FieldValue,int Scale);
        bool Get(char* FieldName,long& FieldValue);

    BOOL VariantTimeToSystemTimeWithMilliseconds (/*input*/ double
dVariantTime, /*output*/SYSTEMTIME *st);

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Hi

Accoerding to code, I believe, you just need to declare forward class
Table. because 1. you used the name of Table before its declaration
and 2. because you used the reference (or pointer) to Table rather
than plain Table. Consider:

// 1
class Y;
class X {
public:
  X(const Y&); // ok
  void f(Y*); // ok
};

class Y {
  /* ... */
};

// 2
class Y;
class X {
public:
  X(const Y); // error: use of undefined type Y
};

class Y {
};

Regards,
S. Amrollahi