C++ Primer Plus

Exceptions, Classes, and Inheritance

Exceptions, classes, and inheritance interact in a couple ways. First, you can derive one exception class from another, as the standard C++ library does. Second, you can incorporate exceptions into classes by nesting exception class declarations inside a class definition. Third, such nested declarations can be inherited and can serve as base classes themselves.

Listing 15.14 starts us on the way to exploring some of these possibilities. This header file declares a rudimentary Sales class that holds a year value and an array of 12 monthly sales figures. The LabeledSales class derives from Sales and adds a member to hold a label for the data.

Listing 15.14. sales.h

// sales.h  -- exceptions and inheritance