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How to encapsulate functions inside a library
I'm working on a project that uses an in-house library, which is also used by other projects. There are some classes and methods in other classes that are not used outside the library itself, is there ...
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How to allow users to provide their own child classes in a factory design pattern in c++?
I am building a c++ project that will allow users to essentially model and create their own fleet of cars. Right now, the approach I have in mind is a Car Factory Class that will implement all of the ...
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Designing a Two-Party Protocol
I want to design a two-party protocol that runs on two different processes; each process is one party of the protocol. My implementation of a Protocol looks as follows: enum class Role { P1, P2 }; ...
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Implementing factory that return the correct type
Imagine I have a factory that must create object based on unknown input (let's say user input). class Base; class MyFactory { static unique_ptr<Base> CreateBase(Input& input); } Now this ...
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Which approach do I choose for representing objects and scenes in my 3D drawing library?
I'm creating my own drawing library in C++ to provide shared rendering code for my projects. Since the library is designed to be used as a component of other projects, the renderer's representation of ...
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OOP Design of a Mathematical Group
A Group is formally defined as a set of Element's, over which a single operator mul is defined. There are different kinds of Groups, and each kind requires a different set of parameters. Operator mul ...
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Optimal way to share data between different classes
I have a C++ code that performs simulation of a physical system which deals with motion of objects. It has the following classes: Class Main, containing all the main calculation methods and the data ...
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Is it good practice for object APIs to be required to be called in sequence to gather information?
I had this discussion with someone and it ended ambiguously. Suppose you have a class that needs to Parse a file to gather some information. It can expose this information to you after the fact. ...
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Should you default to using classes in C++? [duplicate]
I recently discovered the KISS and YAGNI principles which made me question my usage with classes because I use them constantly without really thinking about it and I realized my code could be much ...
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Refactoring code for template class
I have a template class in c++ that depends on a few nontype template parameters. The implementation of some methods, and some field member, depend on the value of the template parameters, in a ...
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Should I separate algorithms that rely on a data structure into different classes
I'm learning about graph algorithms, so to learn them better I'm beginning to write some of them using c++. For example, I created the code for implementing the Depth First Search algorithm. Here's ...
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Some approach or Design Pattern to implement same method different parameters of Interface class
I am using the Flyweight pattern to cache and reuse objects of the different classes. For example, I have a Shape interface class and multiple types of Shapes implementing the methods from the ...
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Avoiding forward declaration and circular reference in C++
Consider a card game (something like Magic or Legends of Runeterra) program, with BaseCard, Deck and GameState classes/structs. The way I've conceptualized the relationship between these classes would ...
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is there a two-way (bidirectional) observer pattern?
I have two classes. "System" and "Bluetooth". I want to have a really loose coherency between these two classes as they should be able to exist or not without depending on each ...
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Difference between `Class.X` and `Class.getX()`?
Might be a silly question or something I might have just messed up in my head but here we go... I saw a code example of someone using getPos() in their own class to retrieve the current position of an ...
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