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coltrane
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Chile988 Posts
July 12 2009 09:25 GMT
#121
On July 12 2009 16:01 fusionsdf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2009 05:37 coltrane wrote:
okok;


copypaste this and compile it:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {

int a;
double b;
char c;

cout << a << b << c;

return 0;

}


When you run that shit you will realize that:

Variables always have a value, even when you dont asign any variable to it.

So, a good manner thing is to put some value in a variable like the a in your program
WHY? because you are ALWAYS running a multiple selection test on it, but you are NOT ALWAYS assigning a value to it. A good form to do that is changing

double a;

for the sentence

double a(0);

^ thats a constructor, is a function over a variable. It basically says something like "assign 0 to a variable" at the very moment that you declare it as variable.


I will rewrite your code.

+ Show Spoiler +

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
       double w, h;
       double a(0);
       cout << "Please enter your weight (in KG) and height (in meters)." << endl;
       cin >> w >> h;
       if (w <= 0 || h <= 0){
             cout << "Invalid input." << endl;
             //this line is a comment. The compiler will skip it. ok, you asked for
             //2 values, if they dont fit the condition then we end just here,
             // and a is 0 right now.
       } else {
             a = (w/(h*h));
             cout << "Your Body Mass Index is " << a << "." << endl;

             //a has a new valid value. And then we ask:

             if ( a > 0 && a < 20 )
             cout << "You have a low BMI." << endl;
             else if ( a > 20 && a < 25 )
             cout << "You are within the healthy BMI range. Congratulations!" << endl;
             else
             cout << "You have exceeded the healthy BMI range." << endl;
       // i suppose you understand why we dont need brackets {} in this if
       }
       // if the inputed values are useless to us, then we are here.
       return 0;
}



honestly I think that's overkill. As long as the programmer is smart enough to assign a value to the variable at some point before use (and hopefully a sanity check), there is no need to have every variable declaration include an assignment.

int a;
double b;
char c;

a = 0;
b = 0.0;
c = cin.get();

cout << a << b << c;

return 0;

There is no point declaring c with an initial value when you are just going to be getting it from the keyboard immediately after anyways.


yes, but is a good thing to understand that a variable will have some value always. Anyway i just said him to assign a value to a variable, not to every variable...
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