I always thought that structs were like a class that had no methods and couldn''t be inherited. I believe this is true in C. However, C++, having classes, seems to have made structs much more similar to a class. Right now I''m looking at code that has structs with methods and constructors/destructors and struct inheritance. So what''s the difference between structs and classes in C++? ___________________________________________________________ Where to find the intensity (Updated Mar 20, 2004)

structs'' members are public by default, whereas classes'' are private by default. both can be overridden by using the "private:" or "public:" tags.

structs default to public inheritance, classes default to private inheritance.

the following are exactly the same:

struct Base  {    int publicVar;  private:    int privateVar;  };struct Derived1 : Base  {  };struct Derived2 : private Base  {  }; 

class Base  {    int privateVar;  public:    int publicVar;  };class Derived1 : public Base  {  };class Derived2 : Base  {  }; 

Well, when I wrote that reply, I''d seen structs with constructors before, but not other methods, and I hadn''t seen inheritance with structs.

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Where to find the intensity (Updated Mar 20, 2004)