Re: Class reference member problem

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:44:11 -0500
Message-ID:
<daniel_t-A2F36B.18441024012008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>
tech <naumansulaiman@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi, i have the following situation

class B
{


public: // I'm assuming either createBobj is public, or
        // A is a friend of B.

  static B createBobj();
}

// I'm assuming you meant to put a ';' after that closing brace.

Class A


// I'm assuming you meant "class A"

{
   func()


// I'm assuming func() returns void

  {
     m_obj = createobj();


// I'm assuming that was supposed to be "m_obj = B::createBobj();"

  }

   B& m_obj;
};

Obviously doesn't compile so


Obviously. :-)

In class A i want to hold a reference to an instance of class B
created by the
factory method createBObj. i can't initialise my reference member in
constructor as
class A needs to do some other initialisation before creating instance
of B.

So how to solve this problem?


Lastly, I'm assuming you can't change class B, and that B has proper
copy construction semantics...

class A {
   B m_obj;
   void func() {
      m_obj = B::createBobj();
   }
};

It will not hold the exact instance created by createBobj(), but it will
hold an instance that is in the same state.

Or did I make too many assumptions... :-)

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