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It is not uncommon to build up a complex class by declaring simpler classes and including them in the declaration of the more complicated class. For example, you might declare a wh
Read tutorialJust as you can ask the compiler to make a regular function inline, you can make class methods inline. The keyword inline appears before the return value. The inline implementation
Read tutorialEach function that you declare for your class must have a definition. The definition is also called the function implementation. Like other functions, the definition of a class met
Read tutorialClients are the parts of the program that create and use objects of your class. You can think of the interface to your class--the class declaration--as a contract with these client
Read tutorialIf you declare a class method const, you are promising that the method won't change the value of any of the members of the class. To declare a class method constant, put the keywor
Read tutorialClasses have a special member function called a constructor. The constructor can take parameters as needed, but it cannot have a return value--not even void. The constructor is a c
Read tutorialYou use the class keyword to declare new types. A class is a collection of class member data, which are variables of various types, including other classes. The class also contains
Read tutorialAll members of a class--data and methods--are private by default. Private members can be accessed only within methods of the class itself. Public members can be accessed through an
Read tutorialOne way to think about a car is as a collection of wheels, doors, seats, windows, and so forth. Another way is to think about what a car can do: It can move, speed up, slow down, s
Read tutorialDuring the late 1970s and early 1980s, C became the dominant computer programming language, and it is still widely used today. Since C is a successful and useful language, you migh
Read tutorialA function can call itself. This is called recursion, and recursion can be direct or indirect. It is direct when a function calls itself; it is indirect recursion when a function c
Read tutorialFor every parameter you declare in a function prototype and definition, the calling function must pass in a value. The value passed in must be of the declared type.
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