A Laboratory Course in C++, 5th Edition

Prelab Activities

Review

In Chapter 2, we showed how identifiers are constructed and said they name data

types, data objects, and actions. We used the following three statements in program

Rhyme:

const char SEMI_COLON = ';';

const string VERB1 = "went up "

string firstLine;

The first named a char constant, SEMI_COLON, and stored a semicolon into it. The

second named a string constant and stored the string "went up" into it. The third

named a string variable firstLine, into which a value of type string can be

stored.

As we said in Chapter 2, four integral types can be used to refer to an integer

value: char, short, int, and long. Although these types represent ...