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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition
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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

by P. J. Deitel, H. M. Deitel, D. T. Quirk
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1552 pages
46h 20m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 10. Classes: A DeeperLook, 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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