Re: Multiple suitable operators
* James Kanze:
On Jan 19, 5:01 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:
* mathieu:
[...]
BTW, if you want to use both private and public parts, use class
rather than struct.
Because... ?
It's an established convention to indicate POD type by using
'struct'.
Established by whom?
Rather by "what". With some caveats a POD can be said to be the C++ equivalent
of a C "struct". The convention I referred follows from that association.
Instead of a style guide, check out discussions about this, e.g.
<url:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54585/when-should-you-use-a-class-vs-a-struct-in-c>
I've seen several different conventions --
my own is to declare struct when all of the data members are
public (even if some of the data members are e.g. std::string,
which means that it isn't a POD).
That's an "aggregate". Add a constructor and you have That Thing For Which We
Have No Name. The Nameless Thing, a C++ specific class type.
I've also seen people
declaring interfaces "struct", when all of the members are
public (albeit pure virtual).
Yeah, it's in the nature of conventions that they're not enforced, and that
there can be many contradictory conventions.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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