Structures and Classes

[Mertovun]

Hi. I don't understand what the difference between structures and classes. Can anybody explain it, please? Thanks.

[jsmith]

Default access in a struct is public and in a class is private.
Otherwise they are absolutely identical from a compiler standpoint.

[Umz]

Can a structure have member functions?
I thought that there were collosal differences such as inheritance and the likes, that what I got told.

[jsmith]

A long time ago there were differences. In the current standard there is no difference except for what I originally mentioned. Structs can have constructors, destructors, member functions, virtual functions and use inheritance just like classes.

[Umz]

Great! Its good that the standards get updated, so if there basicallly the same thing now which one is better to use?

[helios]

Default access in a struct is public and in a class is private.
Otherwise they are absolutely identical from a compiler standpoint.