Re: Objects

From: Chris \( Val \) (chrisval_at_bigpond.com.au)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 00:37:39 +1100

"jeffc" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:3faa6be4_3@news1.prserv.net...
|
| "Robert Fortune" <catlike1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
| news:tipqb.12512$9M3.7696@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
| > "A Class enables you to encapsulate, or bundle, these
| > various parts and various functions into one collection, which is called
| an
| > object."
| >
| > He seems to be saying that a collection of data members
| > and related functions is an object as well as a class.
|
| That is misleading at best, and wrong at worst.

It sounds to me, as if the description is being put
forward in laymans terms, given the choice of words
used.

Having said that, I don't think it is that missleading
at all. After all, in C++ - just about everything is
considered to be an object.

Cheers.
Chris Val