RE: [Dev-C++] compiling project fails

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Exactly what difference is there between struct and class except for their
initial difference in protection?

A struct supports constructors, multiple inherritance, virtual methods,
operator overloading, ...  etc just as a class. If you have found a
difference somewhere, please point me at that difference
(compiler and/or standard paragraph).

You can take any C++ application and replace
class xx : yy {
  ...
};

with:
struct xx : yy {
private:
  ...
};

directly, for identical functionality.

The only difference/limitation I can think about right now is that
template declarations only accept the "class" or "typename" keyword.

/Per W

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 Mat...@Ve... wrote:

> One quibble about your characterization of structs as being classes with
> different protection: functions in structs definitely do not get called like
> functions in classes, nor do they behave the same way inside the compiler.