When should you use a class vs a struct in C++?

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Alan Hinchcliffe picture Alan Hinchcliffe · Sep 10, 2008 · Viewed 425.1k times · Source

In what scenarios is it better to use a struct vs a class in C++?

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Commodore Jaeger picture Commodore Jaeger · Sep 10, 2008

Differences between a class and a struct in C++ are that structs have default public members and bases and classes have default private members and bases. Both classes and structs can have a mixture of public, protected and private members, can use inheritance and can have member functions.

I would recommend using structs as plain-old-data structures without any class-like features, and using classes as aggregate data structures with private data and member functions.

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