Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:50:18 08/02/04
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On August 02, 2004 at 00:17:10, Hristo wrote:
>On August 01, 2004 at 22:21:26, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On August 01, 2004 at 05:52:03, Hristo wrote:
>>
>>>On August 01, 2004 at 01:07:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>My code until today used a lot of global varaibles and I decided based on advice
>>>>of Dann Corbit to use a class for time management.
>>>>
>>>>I have a many varaibles in class for time management and
>>>>I hesitate which parameters to give to the functions.
>>>>
>>>>I will give an example:
>>>>
>>>>I want to have a procedure to update the remaining number of moves to the time
>>>>control in the beginning of every search(this varaible is used for other
>>>>varaibles like the target time.
>>>>
>>>>The procedure is using the following varaibles:
>>>>1)num_moves_1(number of moves in the first time control)
>>>>2)num_moves_2(number of moves in the second time control)
>>>>3)num_moves_3(number of moves in the third time control)
>>>>4)hply(history ply of the game)
>>>
>>>
>>>Uri,
>>>if you should provide accessor functions for your class attributes (variables).
>>>In other words, it is a common practice to expose your variables through
>>>independent functions (set/get).
>>>
>>>For instance:
>>>class UrisTime{
>>>public:
>>> UrisTime(){}
>>> ~UrisTime(){}
>>>
>>> int getMoves1(void) const { return num_moves_1;}
>>> void setMoves1(int i) { num_moves_1 = i;}
>>>
>>> int getMoves2(void) const { return num_moves_2;}
>>> void setMoves2(int i) { num_moves_2 = i;}
>>>
>>> int getMoves3(void) const { return num_moves_3;}
>>> void setMoves3(int i) { num_moves_3 = i;}
>>>
>>> int getHply(void) const { return hply;}
>>> void setHply(int i) { hply = i;}
>>>
>>>protected:
>>> int num_moves_1;
>>> int num_moves_2;
>>> int num_moves_3;
>>> int hply;
>>>};
>>>
>>>
>>>You can also inline the functions if you think that they would be called very
>>>often: just add inline in front of the functions.
>>>
>>> inline int getMoves1(void) const { return num_moves_1;}
>>> inline void setMoves1(int i) { num_moves_1 = i;}
>>
>>You don't need to explicitely state 'inlined' if the
>>function is in the class definition-- it is implicit.
>
>It is just a hint to the compiler, at any rate, :-)
>The compiler doesn't have to obey it anyway.
>But as you said, it "doesn't hurt."!
It may also create static versions for each file, as an alternative.
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