[ILUG] OT : Differance between a class and a Struct.

[John Allen]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 20:49, Scott Wunsch wrote:
> On Thu, 22-Jan-2004 at 09:31:11 -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> > >Not quite - a class can have a private constructor the difference is
> > >that in a class, members are private by default; in a struct they
> > >are public.
> >
> > Can you subclass a struct?  I didn't think so.
>
> Yes.  In C++ (remember, C++, not C) a "struct" is just another word for a
> "class".  The only difference is that members of a class declared using the
> "struct" keyword are public by default, but if you declare it with the
> "class" keyword, they're public.
>
> A struct in C++ is *not* the same thing as a struct in C.  That's the
> trick to this trick question.
>

True, a struct in C++ is not the same as a struct in C, unless the said struct 
only uses features available in plain old C.

> --
> Take care,
> Scott \\'unsch
>
> ... Ground Water?  Do you mean crushed ice?

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