C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

An Array of Objects

Often, as with the Stock examples, you want to create several objects of the same class. You can create separate object variables, as the examples have done so far, but it might make more sense to create an array of objects. That might sound like a major leap into the unknown, but, in fact, you declare an array of objects the same way you would an array of any of the standard types:

Stock mystuff[4]; // creates an array of 4 Stock objects

Recall that a program always calls the default class constructor when it creates class objects that aren't explicitly initialized. This declaration requires either that the class explicitly defines no constructors at all, in which case the implicit do-nothing default constructor is used, ...