From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > "Peter Sawatzki"  wrote in message
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> >
> >> 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.

Ok but that doesn't explain what the difference between a data type like
"int" and a class like "Date" is.

Geo.

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