{"id":33158,"date":"2023-02-05T00:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-delegation-in-c\/"},"modified":"2023-02-05T00:14:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T18:44:51","slug":"solved-delegation-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-delegation-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Delegation in C++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-47869854\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"47869854\" data-parentid=\"47869213\" data-score=\"2\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>First, let&#8217;s use a typedef for the function:<\/p>\n<pre><code>typedef int agechanger(int);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>this makes a new type, <code>agechanger<\/code>, which will be used in code for passing the function instances around.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you should give your <code>person<\/code> class a proper constructor, and properly incapsulate the <code>age<\/code> field providing a public getter. Then add a method that accepts a function as argument, function of type <code>agechanger<\/code>, of course.<\/p>\n<pre><code>class person\n{\nprivate:\n    int age;\npublic:\n    person(int age){\n        this-&gt;age = age;\n    }\n\n    int getAge() const {\n        return age;\n    }\n    void changeAge(agechanger f)\n    {\n        age = f(age);\n    }\n};\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then define a function that fits our type, inside a <code>class<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>class addNumber {\npublic:\n    static int changeAge(int arg) {\n        return arg + 1;\n    }\n};\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Notice that the function is marked as static and returns the passed <code>int<\/code> incremented by one.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s test everything in a <code>main<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>int main()\n{\n    person Olaf(100); \/\/instance of person, the old Olaf\n\n    Olaf.changeAge(addNumber::changeAge); \/\/pass the function to the person method\n\n    std::cout &lt;&lt; Olaf.getAge() &lt;&lt; std::endl; \/\/Olaf should be even older, now\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make and use a different function, ouside a class, this time:<\/p>\n<pre><code>int younger(int age)\n{\n    return age -10;\n}\n\nint main(){\n\n    person Olaf(100);\n\n    Olaf.changeAge(younger);\n\n    std::cout &lt;&lt; Olaf.getAge() &lt;&lt; std::endl; \/\/ Olaf is much younger now!\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I hope that having code that works is going to help you understand things better. 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