EECS 280 Lecture 6: Compound Objects
30 Sep 2018
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A compound type is a type that can glue together several other types into a new type. An array is a sequence of objects of the same type. We"re going to use structs to represent heterogeneous compounds. Double a,b,c,; // edge lengths of a triangle. We can initialize member variables on at a time using a dot operator or an initializer list. You can also assign a struct to one another; you can make a copy. We can also pass structs as function arguments. However, they should be passed by reference or with a pointer. Const means "do not modify in this scope". When you use const with a pointer, there"s two object: the pointer itself and the object pointed to. Const char *s; // s is a pointer to a character that i"m not allowed to change. Char *const s; // you can change what the pointer points to but not the address.
