2.3. Compound Types
A compound type is a type that is defined in terms of another type. C++ has several compound types, two of which—references and pointers—we’ll cover in this chapter.
Defining variables of compound type is more complicated than the declarations we’ve seen so far. In § 2.2 (p. 41) we said that simple declarations consist of a type followed by a list of variable names. More generally, a declaration is a base type followed by a list of declarators. Each declarator names a variable and gives the variable a type that is related to the base type.
The declarations we have seen so far have declarators that are nothing more than variable ...
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