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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Ellen K.
date: 2004-11-08 11:34:48
subject: Re: C++

From: Ellen K. 

In VB you can pass a user-defined type (VBSpeak for a struct) as a
parameter, no problem.

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:11:00 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>"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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