16. Classes
Those types are not “abstract”; they are as real as int and float.
– Doug McIlroy
Member Functions; Default Copying; Access Control; class and struct; Constructors; explicit Constructors; In-Class Initializers; In-Class Function Definitions; Mutability; Self-Reference; Member Access; static Members; Member Types
Member Functions; Helper Functions; Overloaded Operators; The Significance of Concrete Classes
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16.1. Introduction
C++ classes are a tool for creating new types that can be used as conveniently as the built-in types. In addition, derived classes (§3.2.4, Chapter 20) and templates (§3.4, Chapter 23) allow the programmer to express (hierachical and parametric) relationships ...
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