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Lecture 5

In this lecture we continue exploration of C++ support for classes, looking at constructors and accessors and overloading. And const.

We ultimately arrive at the following Vector class:

#include <vector>

class Vector {
public:
  Vector(size_t M) : num_rows_(M), storage_(num_rows_) {}

        double& operator()(size_t i)       { return storage_[i]; }
  const double& operator()(size_t i) const { return storage_[i]; }

  size_t num_rows() const { return num_rows_; }

private:
  size_t num_rows_;
  std::vector<double> storage_;
};

Note that there are two defintions for operator().

This is a straightforward, but surprisingly powerful, representation for a vector.

Important C++ concepts that we focus on during the development are

• class definition
• member functionws
• private and public
• constructors
• initialization syntax
• operators
  • operator+
  • operator()
• const