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At the moment i'm learning classes in C++, i think i pretty much have the basic principles and syntax down but i have a few things i need clarified.

1. I've looked at some examples where the definitions are made inline in the .hpp class decloration. Is it wise to do this or should you always keep them seperate or does it depend on the program/class size?

2. Classes are equivilant to Structures? I've been looking at some socket programmming and they seem to make use of structs quite alot, although most of the socket programming i have seen is in C. So if these programs were to be re-written in C++ would they make use of classes instead of structures?

Please remember i'm still relatively new to this so be gentle.

uman

Keeping them separate is, AFAIK, a m atter of personal taste. Structs in C are like classes, but don't have methods/member functions. structs in C++ are the same as classes, but everything is by default public, not private.

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ok - understood thx for the quick response.

uman

no problem, glad I could help.

Ooble

I, personally, use structs when I don't want functions, and classes when I do. Just a matter of taste, really.

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I've read somewhere... that structs basically are classes.

Personally, I use structs for "objects" that consist of multiple data types... and classes are a collection of structs and other data types and methods that perform actions on those types.

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Cerulean

Precisely. The C-Socket API functions (connect, bind, send, recv), for example, would be made into a socket class (which is what i've made somewhere). Much more compact, much more tidy.

Ooble

I made me one of those... no idea how to use it...

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Thanx for all the fast replys very enlightening, cheers again.