Re: Question about OO programming in Ada

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Chad Bremmon <bremmon@acm.org> wrote:
: Hyman Rosen wrote:
:> Chad Bremmon wrote:
:> 
:>> Not true.  A C++ Struct is the equivalent of an untagged Ada Type.
:> 
:> 
:> The only difference between "struct" and "class" in C++ is that the
:> former begins in public mode and the latter in private mode.
: 
: A class has a parameter associated with it that is always passed to 
: every function of that class.  You can't see it.  It's a compiler thing, 
: but it's there.

What difference does your compiler produce from the following two
files?

testX.cc:

struct X { int a; };

testY.cc:

class Y {public: int a;};


-- Georg