Im not quite sure how to decide about wether to use a struct or a class for a linked list im making. Each node encapsulates a cvar for a quake like console.

The advantages of a class is that i dont need to use pointer syntax, cos everything is by reference anyway. But its gonna be a light weight object so maybe i should use a struct?

imr1984 wrote:

>Im not quite sure how to decide about wether to use a struct or a class for a
>linked list im making. Each node encapsulates a cvar for a quake like console.
>
>The advantages of a class is that i dont need to use pointer syntax, cos
>everything is by reference anyway. But its gonna be a light weight object so
>maybe i should use a struct?
>
>  
>
You probably want to use a struct, because linked lists are meant to be light weight.  But you can encapsulate that in a class.  Also you might consider making it a template so you can reuse it. ie instead of having cvar at each node, allow the user to specify anything.

J Anderson wrote:
> imr1984 wrote:
> 
>> Im not quite sure how to decide about wether to use a struct or a class for a
>> linked list im making. Each node encapsulates a cvar for a quake like console.
>>
>> The advantages of a class is that i dont need to use pointer syntax, cos
>> everything is by reference anyway. But its gonna be a light weight object so
>> maybe i should use a struct?
>>
>>  
>>
> You probably want to use a struct, because linked lists are meant to be light weight.  But you can encapsulate that in a class.  Also you might consider making it a template so you can reuse it. ie instead of having cvar at each node, allow the user to specify anything.
> 

If he needs one he could have mine...
I wrote a template linked list ones.
It has all basic features... Append, Prepend, Insert, Find etc.
As there are no generic foreach's, I had to write Iterators
There is only one prob, I did not have much time for testing...

Stephan

In article <bua7tc$2tvm$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Stephan Wienczny says...
>
>J Anderson wrote:
>> imr1984 wrote:
>> 
>>> Im not quite sure how to decide about wether to use a struct or a
>>> class for a
>>> linked list im making. Each node encapsulates a cvar for a quake like
>>> console.
>>>
>>> The advantages of a class is that i dont need to use pointer syntax, cos
>>> everything is by reference anyway. But its gonna be a light weight
>>> object so
>>> maybe i should use a struct?
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>> You probably want to use a struct, because linked lists are meant to be light weight.  But you can encapsulate that in a class.  Also you might consider making it a template so you can reuse it. ie instead of having cvar at each node, allow the user to specify anything.
>> 
>
>If he needs one he could have mine...
>I wrote a template linked list ones.
>It has all basic features... Append, Prepend, Insert, Find etc.
>As there are no generic foreach's, I had to write Iterators
>There is only one prob, I did not have much time for testing...
>
>Stephan
>

Yeah host it on a website and ill test it. Who knows maybe if its good enough it could go into Phobos :)