Object oriented design suggestion

Question

Here is my code:

class Soldier {
public:
   Soldier(const string &name, const Gun &gun);
   string getName();
private:
   Gun gun;
   string name;
};

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Answer 1

Indeed, it depends a lot about how much control you want to have.

To model the real world, you might even want to completely encapsulate the gun object, and just have a soldier.attack() method. The soldier.attack() method would then see whether the soldier was carrying a gun, and what the state of the gun was, and fire or reload it as necessary. Or possibly throw the gun at the target and run away, if insufficient ammunition were present for either operation...