From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
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Subject: Re: Programming Prob.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 06:47:51 GMT
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"Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net> wrote:
>Surely in C++, it is better to forget the if/then/else construct altogether:
>
>void main(void)
>{
>    int int1,int2,answer;
>
>    printf("Please enter 2 integers.\n");
>    scanf("%i %i",&int1 ,&int2);
>
>    answer = ( (int1 > int2) ? int1 : int2 );
>
>    printf(" The larger integer is %d\n",answer);
>}
This is actually C and not specific to C++.
Also main() should return an int.

In C++ you could write a templated inlined function:

#include<iostream>

inline template<class T>
T max( T a, T b ) {
    return (a>b)?a:b;
}

int main( void ) {

	int a,b;

	cout << "Enter a: ";
	cin >> a;
	cout << "Enter b:";
	cin >> b;

	cout << "Largest is: " << max( a, b ) << endl;

	return 0;
}

David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
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