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C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition
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C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition

by P. J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., H. M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate
1504 pages
44h 24m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 9. Classes: A Deeper Look, Part 1

 

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time.

 
 --W. S. Gilbert
 

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

 
 --William Shakespeare
 

Don’t be “consistent,” but be simply true.

 
 --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 

This above all: to thine own self be true.

 
 --William Shakespeare

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

  • How to use a preprocessor wrapper to prevent multiple definition errors caused by including more than one copy of a header file in a source-code file.

  • To understand class scope and accessing class members via the name of an object, a reference to an object or a pointer to an object.

  • To define constructors with default arguments.

  • How destructors are used to perform “termination housekeeping” on an object before it ...

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