[prog] C++ Inheritance

[Sue Stones]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 02:33, Laurel Fan wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:18:57PM +1000, Sue Stones wrote:
> > I am trying to write a class that is a extention of fstream called
> > fstream_ext.  If I have the termanology right fstream is the base-class.
>
> [snip]
>
> >  explicit  Fstream_ext::Fstream_ext(const char *filename,
> >                 openmode mode=in|out)
> >
> >         :fstream(filename, mode=in|out)
>
> Just a sanity check.. is your class called Fstream_ext or fstream_ext?

Good point, the question that I am attempting to answer used fstream_ext but 
elswhere in the book it said "your classes should start with a capital 
letter".  This is so emphatic that I didn't know it it was a language 
requirement or a style convention.

Any comments here would be very usefull.

sue