From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:418f51bf{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Peter Sawatzki"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.1bf827b322d0373989741{at}news.barkto.com...
>
>> The main difference is that functions that operate on a class are
>> implicitly called with the self/this pointer as an invisible
"argument".
>
> Why is that distinction important?

You can toss an object (an instance of a class) to other functions /
objects as a parameter, which you can't do with a main() and a bunch of
other separate functions. That's one that comes to mind immediately.


Antti Kurenniemi

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