Re: Good or bad code?

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:58:17 -0400
Message-ID:
<daniel_t-887862.20581608032009@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>
In article <49b3bb4d$0$90265$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
 "mlt" <asdf@asd.com> wrote:

I am writing a function that takes a reference P to a
std::vector<std::vector<int> >. Before calling this function I don't know
the dimensions of P. I need to define those in the function and I need to
read form all elements in P.


Here is some sample code:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/operator-overloading.html#faq-13.10

However, I suggest you use a vector internally, like this:

class BadIndex : public std::logic_error { };

   template < typename T >
class?Matrix
{
public:
   Matrix(unsigned?rows,?unsigned?cols)
         : rows_(rows)
         , cols_(cols)
         , data_(rows * cols)
   {
      if?(rows?==?0?||?cols?==?0)
         throw?BadIndex("Matrix?constructor?has?0?size");
   }

???T&?operator()?(unsigned?row,?unsigned?col)
   {
      if?(row?>=?rows_?||?col?>=?cols_)
         throw?BadIndex("Matrix?subscript?out?of?bounds");
      return?data_[cols_*row?+?col];
   }

???T??operator()?(unsigned?row,?unsigned?col)?const
   {
      if?(row?>=?rows_?||?col?>=?cols_)
         throw?BadIndex("Matrix?subscript?out?of?bounds");
      return?data_[cols_*row?+?col];
   }

   // other member-functions to taste
?private:
???unsigned?rows_,?cols_;
???std::vector<T>?data_;
?};
?

But is this how it should be done? Seems a bit clumsy to me.


It's still a bit clumsy... It would be nice to have some iterators and
some resize functions.

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