Hi!!! I need some help on a project I'm that calculates leap years; I'm
getting errors that I have no idea what they mean; here's the code:
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
class Year
{
public:
Year(int y=0):year(new int) *year(y){}
~Year(){delete year;}
Year(const Year& rhs)*year(rhs.* year){}
Year operator=(const Year& rhs)
{
if(this!=&rhs)
{
*year=rhs->year;
delete year;
}
else return this;
}
void SetYear(int y):year(new int),*year(y){}
int GetYear()const{ return *year;}
bool IsLeapYear(cons t Year& y)const
{
if(y->year%400==0& &y->year%4==0)
return true;
else if(y->year%100)
return false;
else return false
}
friend ostream& operator<<(ostr eam& os,const Year& y);
private:
int* year;
};
ostream& operator<<(ostr eam& os,const Year& y)
{
os << y.GetYear();
return os;
}
}
int main()
{
int date;
for(;;)
{
cout << "Enter a year: " << endl;
cin >> date;
Year year(date);
if(year.IsLeapY ear)
cout << year << " is a leap year. " << endl;
else
cout << year << " is not a leap year. " << endl;
bool cont;
cout << "Continue?[1=yes|0=no]: " << endl;
cin >> cont;
if(cont==true)c ontinue;else break;
system("PAUSE") ;
return 0;
}
And as a side note, it's not letting me use constructor inizilization
syntax. Can you help me (this isn't homework)? Thanks for your help!!!
Sep 18 '05
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"benben" <moc.liamtoh@hg nohneb read backward> wrote in message
news:43******** *************** @news.optusnet. com.au... to encapsulate, you should really make the leap year identification a non-friend, non-member, standalone function.
like:
bool is_leapyear(Yea r year){/*...*/}
ben
How does that help anything? How does it provide encapsulation, when it's
now an external function which has to know (and have access to) the
internals of the Year class?
And the year member of that object is a private variable, so if this is a
non-friend, it can't possibly access the member.
(Also, you're passing the Year object by value, which requires a copy for no
apparent reason.)
-Howard
Your IsLeapYear method is wrong, e.g. 2004 will fail: 2004%400 == 4,
2004%4 == 0, so the first if will fail, 2004%100 == 4, so the else if
will fail, so the method will return false.
see http://www.faqs.org/faqs/calendars/faq/part1/ for the correct
method.
Howard wrote: "benben" <moc.liamtoh@hg nohneb read backward> wrote in message news:43******** *************** @news.optusnet. com.au... to encapsulate, you should really make the leap year identification a non-friend, non-member, standalone function.
like:
bool is_leapyear(Yea r year){/*...*/}
ben How does that help anything?
Helps to keep the interface of Year small. That makes for fewer things to
care about when you actually try to reap the advantages of encapsulation
and set out to change the implementation. You will not need to even look at
is_leapyear().
How does it provide encapsulation, when it's now an external function which has to know (and have access to) the internals of the Year class?
Maybe I am imagination impaired, but why would is_leapyear() need to know
"the internals" of Year. Don't you think that an ordinary call to a public
member function like
signed long GetYear() const;
would suffice?
And the year member of that object is a private variable, so if this is a non-friend, it can't possibly access the member.
So you decided that a GetYear() function is inherently bad and that your
Year class will never ever allow any client to actually figure out which
year a given object of type Year represents. That, indeed, is very tight
encapsulation.
Admittedly, I have a hard time imagining a Year class to have interesting
internals (the only invariant I can fathom is that the year cannot be 0).
However, dreaming up an interface of Year that would not allow non-friend
clients to tell whether the year is divisible by 4 and by 400 is beyond me.
(Also, you're passing the Year object by value, which requires a copy for no apparent reason.)
Good point. However, what would you think that sizeof(Year) should be?
Best
Kai-Uwe Bux
"Kai-Uwe Bux" <jk********@gmx .net> wrote in message
news:dg******** **@murdoch.acc. Virginia.EDU... Howard wrote:
Admittedly, I have a hard time imagining a Year class to have interesting internals (the only invariant I can fathom is that the year cannot be 0). However, dreaming up an interface of Year that would not allow non-friend clients to tell whether the year is divisible by 4 and by 400 is beyond me.
Looking more at his class, I'd have to agree. I see no reason for the class
in the first place, really. A year is simply an integer. Why does it need
functionality? Making the internal value a pointer to an integer is even
more needless complexity.
-Howard
Protoman wrote: I fixed it and it works.
C++ language issues aside, your leap year calculation is flawed. For
example, according to your code, 1996 is not a leap year.
Also, I'm not sure if a complete class isn't a little overkill, unless
you do more with the year than figuring out if it's a leap year.
This formula should work better:
bool IsLeapYearFixed ( const unsigned int year )
{
if ( 0 != year % 4 )
return false;
if ( 0 == year % 400 )
return true;
if ( 0 == year % 100 )
return false;
return true;
}
Cheers,
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