Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups: comp.programming
Subject: Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:04:05 +0000
Organization: none
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <871t8w1vt6.fsf@ixod.org>
References: <2df6fc12-e6c9-4f5b-bdb7-21e35a57edbb@googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1b3e5cba9e4d07a53741e6f3d1717925"; logging-data="27215"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+eMze0XEMqPScvROuEIxTG"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:aUHvKeRjshHGo2ctLnaiUj7w3po= sha1:AUR0sYFOSEGq0qx/FEdpsH+zMbU=
Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6250

On 01 Feb 2016, Paul wrote:

> The post below was also sent to comp.lang.c++ but it's been more than
> half a day, and I haven't got any responses so I'd like to post it to
> this group.

That's not long to wait!

> If I only had the first four to worry about, the design could be very simple. 
> I would have a pure abstract class as a base of all the algorithms.  Finding the solution is done via a virtual function which depends on the algorithm selected by the user.

... and such details of how OO works are rather C++-specific.

Good luck though.

-- Mark