Re: Writting program which will read a coordinate pair for a point
in the x-y plane.
On 15.09.2010 11:00, Saeed Amrollahi wrote:
On Sep 15, 5:34 am, sam alton <altonmaat...@gmail.com> wrote:
Write a program which will read a coordinate pair for a point in the x-
y plane. It should output whether the point is at the origin (0, 0),
on the X axis [such as (6, 0)], on the Y axis [such as (0, -2)], or in
one of four quadrants: for example: (3, 1) is in quadrant 1, (-2, 2)
is in quadrant 2, (-5, -10) is in quadrant 3, and (5, -1) is in
quadrant 4.
Hi Sam
Your question seems to be a homework/assignment.
Yes, it looks like a complete copy & paste from the homework assignment;
no effort taken even for modifying the wording a bit in the first
sentence. The student would probably prefer getting his grade registered
automatically upon course enrolment without actually doing anything.
class Point { // 2D point
int x, y;
public:
// set of constructors
Point() : x(0), y(0) {}
Point(int x_, int y_) : x(x_), y(y_) {}
// ...
// Examining object states
int X() const { return x; }
int Y() const { return y; }
// Where is point?
enum EWhere { CENTER, X_AXIS, Y_AXIS, QUADRANT_1, ... };
Not good. In C++, ALL_CAPS should be reserved for macros.
EWhere Where() const
{
// A lot of if-else
if (x == 0 && y == 0) return CENTER;
else if (y == 0) return X_AXIS;
// ...
}
Such operations might be better defined outside the class, because they
can be implemented entirely in terms of Point's public functions.
2. You can define 2 (friend) I/O operators:
istream& operator>>(const istream&, Point&);
ostream& operator<<(ostream&, const Point&);
Why declare operator<< a friend? It does not need access to Point's
private members, does it? (Besides, it should take Point as a const
reference.)
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