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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Konrad_M=FChler?=]

Hi,

I've a struct:

struct POINT {
int x,y;
};

And I want to commit a variable of type POINT in a function

myFunction(POIN T myVar) { ... }

If I call the function, I want to write both values for x and y directly
in the function call like :

myFunction(POIN T(1,2));

This doesn't work and I want to know, how I can do this. Or do I have to
define the struct as an independent class?

Thanks
Konrad

[Victor Bazarov]

Konrad Mühler wrote:

I've a struct:

struct POINT {
int x,y;
};

And I want to commit a variable of type POINT in a function

myFunction(POIN T myVar) { ... }

If I call the function, I want to write both values for x and y directly
in the function call like :

myFunction(POIN T(1,2));

This doesn't work and I want to know, how I can do this. Or do I have to
define the struct as an independent class?

You can either define a constructor in your struct or define a
stand-alone function that would return a struct made from two arguments
(sort of out-of-the-class constructor):

struct POINT {
int x,y;
POINT(int x_, int y_) : x(x_), y(y_) {} // constructor
};
...
myFunction(POIN T(1,2));

or
POINT makePOINT(int x, int y) {
POINT p = { x, y };
return p;
}
...
myFunction(make POINT(1,2));

Beware, that according to the current Standard, adding a user-defined
constructor prevents your class from being a POD. I think it's fixed in
the upcoming Standard. It actually may not mean anything different to
your program, but I just thought I'd mention it.

V
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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Konrad_M=FChler?=]

You can either define a constructor in your struct or define a

stand-alone function that would return a struct made from two arguments
(sort of out-of-the-class constructor):

struct POINT {
int x,y;
POINT(int x_, int y_) : x(x_), y(y_) {} // constructor
};
...
myFunction(POIN T(1,2));

or
POINT makePOINT(int x, int y) {
POINT p = { x, y };
return p;
}
...
myFunction(make POINT(1,2));

Beware, that according to the current Standard, adding a user-defined
constructor prevents your class from being a POD. I think it's fixed in
the upcoming Standard. It actually may not mean anything different to
your program, but I just thought I'd mention it.

Thank you very much. It helped a lot :-)
Konrad