14. Rolo Revisited

In This Chapter

• Design Considerations

• rolo

• add

• lu

• display

• rem

• change

• listall

• Sample Output

• Exercises

This chapter presents a final version of the rolo program. This version is enhanced with additional options and also allows for more general types of entries (other than just names and numbers). The sections in this chapter discuss the individual programs in rolo, starting with rolo itself. At the end of this chapter, sample output is shown.

Design Considerations

A more practical type of rolodex program would permit more than just the names and numbers to be stored in the phone book. You’d probably want to keep addresses (maybe even electronic mail addresses) there as well. The new rolo program allows ...

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