Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="JohnQ, post: 2600428"] In "The Design and Evolution of C++" (1994) on pg. 76, Stroustrup gives his rationale for the concept of structs and classes being the same. Knowing that I consciously always use structs and classes as distinctly different animals, I would have not burdened classes with the C struct concept, I think. But then again, deriving from a struct and then being able to use the derived class as a struct may be enough to appreciate the way he chose to define it: making classes from Windows structures like POINT (tagPOINT?) for example, which makes it easy to manipulate point data while still being able to automagically pass the class object instance to a function requiring the POINT structure. John [/QUOTE]