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Constructors with Parameters

• Sometimes a constructor gets more complex because one of the data fields is itself an object of another class with its own constructor.
• Example: suppose we modify the Employee class so that each Employee has scheduled work hours.

  class Employee
  {
  public:
     Employee(string employee_name, double initial_salary,
        int arrive_hour, int leave_hour);
     . . .
  private:
     string name;
     double salary;
     Time arrive;
     Time leave;
  };
  

  The constructor must initialize the time fields using the Time() constructor.

  Employee::Employee(string employee_name, double initial_salary,
     int arrive_hour, int leave_hour)
  {
     name = employee_name;
     salary = initial_salary;
     arrive = Time(arrive_hour, 0, 0);
     leave = Time(leave_hour, 0, 0);
  }
  

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