Charles Hixson a �crit dans le message : 38FF3914.839040E2@earthlink.net... > > My original definition of an Object (I was coming to C++ from C after being > exposed to Apple's Object Pascal) was: > An object is a data structure combined with the methods defined to access it. It > is made useful by inheritance. This seems to imply that an object is not "useful" unless you use inheritance. I'd like some evidence to support that claim (the fact that many gurus do it is not supporting evidence to me). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog