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From: daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: derivation from structs
Message-ID: <7138@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 22:23:33 GMT
References: <7103@saturn.ucsc.edu> <9353@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson)
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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In article <9353@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>In article <7103@saturn.ucsc.edu>, daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
>> Does derivation from structs rather than classes default
>> to public rather than private?
>
>Saying
>
>	struct X { /* stuff */ };
>
>is precisely equivalent to saying
>
>	class X { public: /* stuff */ };
>
>and saying
>
>	struct Y: X { /* stuff */ };
>
>is precisely equivalent to saying
>
>	class Y: public X { public: /* stuff */ };
>
>Whether you said struct or class when defining X is invisible to
>any class derived from X.  
>	--Andrew Koenig, ark@europa.att.com

So this means that given

	class X { /* stuff */ };

saying

	struct Y : X { /* more stuff */ };

is precisely equivalent to saying

	struct Y : public X { /* more stuff */ };

and given

	struct X { /* stuff */ };

saying

	class Y : X { /* stuff */ }

is precisely equivalent to saying

	class Y : private X { /* stuff */ }

Correct?

daniel edelson
daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu