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C++ HW help please!

Posted by diegoeskryptic [send private reply] at March 28, 2002, 01:06:10 PM

For my assignment... my teacher told me to complete a program by adding function declarations, function implementations and variable definitions in the main program. I need to know exactly what are these three things... thanx

Posted by taubz [send private reply] at March 28, 2002, 01:48:54 PM

As the description of this forum says, no one on this site will do your work for you. You should have a textbook that describes these things. So without giving you answers, I'll describe each in a few words.

function declaration: something that tells the compiler of the existence of a function, the code of which may or may not be along side the declaration

function implementation: the actual code which makes up the function

variable definitions: something that tells the compiler that a certain "thing" is a variable, and that it should allocate memory for the variable

Good luck.

- taubz

Posted by diegoeskryptic [send private reply] at March 28, 2002, 01:55:51 PM

Oh... i wasnt expecting the answers.... i just wanted a visual example... for instance.... int him (int him1, int him2).... i needed sumthing like that... but thanx

Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at March 28, 2002, 09:59:01 PM

A function declaration is also called a prototype. They goe below your includes and above the main function. They consist of the return type, the function name, and the parameter types and (optionally) names. A function implementation is simply writing the function. Variable definitions are simply declaring variables, you don't get much easier than that...

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