Coding questions about creating class instances?

[JC0724]

Is it possible to instantiate a class inside of a for loop and continue to make a new instance of the class as I iterate threw the for loop?

Also can you have multiply instances with the same name but if I pass in different values in the Constructor, will all of the instances exist with the same name but with different values or will it keep over writing it self?

Can I create a string and then create an instance of animal with the variable/name of the string?

Is this possible below.

class animal {
};

string bob;

bob animal();

 

[Snowknight26]

1. Yes.
2. If you use the same variable, no.
3. Depends on the language. I believe that PHP, for example, can.

 

[Chris_Lonardo]

What you actually call the instance of your class is arbitrary. If you want to name it, you could just set a property of the class. Pseudocode using C#:

class animal{
 public string name {get; set;}
}

animal someAnimal = new animal();

string someName = "Midget";

someAnimal.name = someName;

 

[Tawnos]

You'll need to keep a reference to the previous ones you created unless you want the garbage collector to clean them up. Example typed in browser, I think it works

class Animal
{
  public Animal(string name)
  {
    Name = name;
  }

  public string Name { get; private set; }
}

class Program
{
  public static void main(string[] args)
  {
    const int animalCount = 10;

    var animals = new List<Animal>();
    for (int i = 0; i < animalCount; i++)
    {
      animals.Add(new Animal(Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
    }

    Console.WriteLine(String.Join(", ", animals));
  }
}