class composition

[David Sobey]

sorry this may be a bit too generic for this newsgroup but neways:

I've got this:

class Event
{
reminder rem;
reccurance rec;
...other stuff;
}

When i need to check if a reminder needs to occur, i call
event.rem.checkreminder, however this function needs to access stuff in
the recurrance class. Obviously this can't happen.

I don't want to solve this problem with inheritence if possible, as
it's not really a logical modelling of the problem. And i also want to
avoid creating a function event.checkreminder, that passes "rec" to the
reminder class, as it doesn't make much sense either. Does anyone one
have some brilliant suggestions that will wash all my troubles away? :)

cheers!
dave

[Chris]

David Sobey wrote:

sorry this may be a bit too generic for this newsgroup but neways:

I've got this:

class Event
{
reminder rem;
reccurance rec;
...other stuff;
}

When i need to check if a reminder needs to occur, i call
event.rem.checkreminder, however this function needs to access stuff in
the recurrance class. Obviously this can't happen.

I don't want to solve this problem with inheritence if possible, as
it's not really a logical modelling of the problem. And i also want to
avoid creating a function event.checkreminder, that passes "rec" to the
reminder class, as it doesn't make much sense either. Does anyone one
have some brilliant suggestions that will wash all my troubles away? :)

cheers!
dave

Not knowing what reccurance does vs reminder I'm a little in the dark
but shouldn't reminder be inside reccurance? Can a reminder exist
without a reccurance and vice versa?

Chris