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acinader@panix.com (Arthur Cinader Jr) wrote:

>I may be going at this wrong, but I want to have a class
>Triangle contain a static method called makeinstance.  The
>method will be passed a refernce to a Param object that has
>a list of parameters for checking first and then passing to 
>the Triangle constructor.

>The parameters are checked and if all is ok, a Triangle
>instance is "newed" and the pointer to the new Trinagle is
>returned.  When I compile, I get the following error:

>% g++ -c triangle.C
>In file included from triangle.C:8:
>triangle.h:17: syntax error before `*'
>...
>%

>***The declaration for the class:

>      1 // triangle.h
>      2 // declaration of class Triangle extends shape
>      3
>      4 #ifndef TRIANGLE_H
>      5 #define TRIANGLE_H
>      6
>      7 #include "point.h"
>      8 #include "param.h"
>      9
>     10 class Trianlge : public Point {
>     11 public:
>     12     Trinagle(float = 0.0, float = 0.0, float = 0.0);
>     13     float gets() const;
>     14     virtual void draw() const;
>     15
>     16     static Param &getParams();
>     17     static Triangle *makeinstance(Param &);
>     18 private:
>     19     float side;
>     20 };
>     21
>     22 #endif

The idea looks fine to me. However, if this is a direct copy of the code you
wrote you better mind your spelling. The word Triangle is spelled differently in
the three place it appears:

class Trianlge...

Trinagle(float....

static Triangle *makeinstance...

This would definitely cause the problem you described...

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