Re: Identifiers in C++

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Andy even with your misunderstanding of what Karl might have been
looking for your code was very beneficial to me ...Thank you

Andy Burgess wrote:
> 
> oops. i think i got the wrong end of the stick there... don't know why, but
> i thought this was a function question.
> anyway, you can do it for variables the same way i suggested earlier, with a
> few modifications. try it, see where you get to, report back if you get
> stuck.
> of course, this is only if you know what the variable names are going to be.
> if you don't (i.e. if you want variable names to be defined at runtime) then
> you really have to use an array, or something, to create your own symbol
> table and go from there.
> 
> sorry about the earlier confusion. ;)
> 
> andy
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karl Brehme <Karl@1planning.com.br>
> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 1:36 PM
> Subject: RE: Identifiers in C++
> 
> I think not.... not in normal ways... nor function or macro inside VC....
> 
> But you can try to construct your own... making indexes inside tables in
> memory.... but.... is really complex, I think, considering that the eval
> function of javascript, for example, that makes it, is a kind of function
> that compiles on the fly the string... that can be watheer command line,
> function, variable, from your code or from wathever function of all
> APIs......
> 
> or.... change do Java... if JavaScript has it... Java maybe has it too...
> 
> Karl Heinz Brehme
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com
> [mailto:gameprogrammer-owner@gameprogrammer.com]On Behalf Of Ash
> Stirling
> Sent: Terça-feira, 14 de Setembro de 1999 07:58
> To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
> Subject: Identifiers in C++
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm trying to reference a variable by the contents of a variable.  That
> is,
> 
>      x = "myVar";
> y = myClass.(x);
> 
>   where the desired result is to have 7 = myClass.myVar .  Is this possible
> under (MS) Visual C++ 4.0?  If I can do this, it will same me a lot of time
> and will make my program much more flexible.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ash David Stirling                    Email: (ashley@roadrunner.nf.net)
> Department of Computer Science Phone: (709) 739-0022
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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