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Professional C++, 3rd Edition
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Professional C++, 3rd Edition

by Marc Gregoire
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
984 pages
25h 22m
English
Wrox
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Chapter 8Mastering Classes and Objects

  • How to use dynamic memory allocation in objects
  • The different kinds of data members you can have (static, const, reference)
  • The different kinds of methods you can implement (static, const, inline)
  • The details of method overloading
  • How to work with default parameters
  • How to use nested classes
  • How to make classes friends of other classes
  • What operator overloading is
  • How to write separate interface and implementation classes.

Please note that all the code examples for this chapter are available as a part of this chapter’s code download on the book’s website at www.wrox.com/go/proc++3e on the Download Code tab.

Chapter 7 started the discussion on classes and objects. Now it’s time to master their subtleties so you can use them to their full potential. By reading this chapter, you will learn how to manipulate and exploit some of the most powerful aspects of the C++ language in order to write safe, effective, and useful classes.

Many of the concepts in this chapter arise in advanced C++ programming, especially in the standard template library.

DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION IN OBJECTS

Sometimes you don’t know how much memory you will need before your program actually runs. As you know, the solution is to dynamically allocate as much space as you need during program execution. Classes are no exception. Sometimes you don’t know how much memory an object will need when you write the class. ...

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