[BysmuthMage]

Is there a way to use a member variable of a class as the value of an instance of the class?

eg:
...
class number
{
int originalNumber,doubleOfNumber;
number(int theNumber)
{
originalNumber = theNumber;
doubleOfNumber = 2 * theNumber;
}
};

int main()
{
number twentySeven(27);
cout << twentySeven;
}

Is there a way to make this code (or something like it with changes) would write to the screen "27" without the need for 'twentySeven.getNumber()'?

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You created a class with the classname number, then you created a function with a function name number(int theNumber), wouldn't it be conflicting?

On the main() program, you declared to make an object twentySeven of class number, therefore it should be able to access only the function twentySeven.number() and NOT twentySeven.getNumber() <-- this function was not declared.

also that code would have been better if you used
int number(int theNumber){
<statements>;
return <var>;
}

then in the main() it should have been

cout << twentSeven.number();

Edited by kool808, 13 July 2005 - 05:34 PM.

[kool808]

You created a class with the classname number, then you created a function with a function name number(int theNumber), wouldn't it be conflicting?

On the main() program, you declared to make an object twentySeven of class number, therefore it should be able to access only the function twentySeven.number() and NOT twentySeven.getNumber() <-- this function was not declared.

also that code would have been better if you used
int number(int theNumber){
<statements>;
return <var>;
}

then in the main() it should have been

cout << twentSeven.number();

Edited by kool808, 13 July 2005 - 05:34 PM.

[BysmuthMage]

My question was how you could get the value of 'originalNumber' without using 'twentySeven.getNumber()' or a similar function and without 'twentySeven.originalNumber.' And BTW, the 'function' number(int theNumber) was the constructor.
...
number(int theNumber) //constructor
...

probably would have led to less confusion.

Edited by BysmuthMage, 14 July 2005 - 07:19 AM.