C++ How to Program, 10/e

9.16 Wrap-Up

This chapter deepened our coverage of classes, using a Time class case study to introduce several new features. We showed how to engineer a class to separate its interface from its implementation. We used an include guard to prevent the code in a header (.h) file from being included multiple times in the same source code (.cpp) file.

You created formatted strings using ostringstream objects. You learned how to use the arrow operator to access an object’s members via a pointer of the object’s class type. You learned that member functions have class scope—the member function’s name is known only to the class’s other members unless referred to by a client of the class via an object name, a reference to an object of the class, a pointer ...