C++ class problem

If you have the function take pointers or references to the Monster and Player classes, you can use forward declarations. Ex:

class Player;class Monster;class LifeForm {  public:    void Fight(Player &, Monster &);};

On the other hand, I don't understand why you need to have the attack function in the life form class take both a player and a monster. Wouldn't it just need a reference to the life form it's attacking?

edit: More information on forward declarations and other good stuff.

What you can do is this:


That way the base class can know about the derived classes. There is probably a better way of designing the system than that but I can't say what from the small amount of info you presented, but the code above will work.

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but it needs to know about the player and monsters in the battle.

Why does it need to know? Something doesn't sound right.

I thought something didn't seem right also that is why I am posted here. My battle function stores a vector of monsters and a player for that battle. In the attack function the attacking lifeform searches for other lifeforms around it that are against it player vs monsters, monster vs player. The target is chosen and the lifeform attacks. I then get information about the player or monster such as hit chance, dodge chance and then if the lifeform hits I call a take Dmg function on whatever is recieving the dmg.

So in searching for targets, and getting information about the target I need to know about them.