C ++ inheritance for character class

Question

I have a task to recreate the game. I have to implement a list of characters. For example, I have a Character class that only has a character name.

Now I need to create a Warrior character who is an adversary in the game. Do I need to implement my inheritance as follows: Character --> Enemy --> Warrior , when my enemy class basically has no attributes. This is more a classification than anything.

Is there a way to have Enemy and a Warrior defined in the same class, where Warrior is of type Enemy , which is of type Character ? There will be more enemies, but only one Warrior .

thanks

Answer 1

You say that the enemy class basically has no attributes.

In this case, but one of the reasons for using the Enemy class and inheritance is that it better anticipates unknown future code needs, creating now (almost) transparent flexibility.

Of course, you can make a type for the Enemy class, but as you add more enemies, you may find that this solution requires more and more code in the form of switch and if to check the type.

Answer 2

If all Warriors are Enemies and possess all the properties of an enemy, then yes, it makes sense that the Warrior be a subclass of the Enemy.

As noted in some comments, a complex inheritance chain is problematic and asymptomatic due to the poor architecture of the program.

Is there a way to have the Enemy and Warrior defined in the same class where the Warrior is of type Enemy, which is of type Character?

In the inheritance chain that we talked about, Warrior is the type of enemy that is the type of character.

I think you can mislead a class with a file that defines it. You cannot define a class that has two types. You can define several classes inside one .h and implement them inside one cpp file, but by style it is better to define one class in one .h / .cpp pair.