In article <72sh6f$fi8$1@newsmonger.rutgers.edu>,
  "Ajay Wanchoo" <wanchoo@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Pl. consider the following (also pl. note that I'm not an expert):
>
> 1. One can't specify member functions and more importantly any ctor/dtor
> for unnamed classes. It *might* be useful to have a mechanism to allow
> this (especially for small/trivial classes that have only one instance in
> the
> entire program).
> e.g.
> class{
>  int a;
>  char *b;
> }Alpha;// I might want to initialize the integer a, and allot some memory to
> b
>
> 2. Maybe an identifier like "this" (pointer to self object) i.e. a ref to
> the class
> like a "thisclass" identifier would help to resolve which class is being
> referred to. It may even help in regular coding, even though you could get
> the class info using the typeid operator.
>
> 3. Further, even inheritance is not allowed, which is sad but that's another
> story.
>
> Ajay
>

My advice is: just use name for your class. If you want to hide this name,
use anonimous namespace:

namespace // anonimous
{

class MyClass
       {
       whatever members
       }
whatever_vars;

} // end of namespace.

MyClass will be only visible in its particular file. Bad if it were in a
header...


But: it brings me to yet another usage of the proposed in other mails keyword
'typeof' (which is supposed to give the type of its argument):

class   /*unnamed*/
{
public:

typeof (*this)     // Constructor?
   {}

~typeof (*this)    // Destructor?
   {}

// etc.

} xx;


class MyClass : public typeof (xx)
{}


Radoslav Getov

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