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I’m a programming student in my 2nd OOP course, which is taught in C++. I know that it is generally bad practice to use magic numbers in code, so here’s my question:
In the next program I have to write for this class, there is over 120 numbers given to us in tax tables, and we need to use them to compute tax and other relevant info. With such a large amount of numbers, do I define a constant for each number? Or is there something else I can do?
Constants would be more appropriate than magic numbers –
However, with that many “constants”, and something that changes over time (tax tables), I personally would load these via a configuration file, and use some type of dictionary lookup for the individual values. This would make it much easier to adjust to new tax tables without recompilation.