Conclusion

In this chapter, we've delved into the concepts and implementations of classes and objects, which are the constructs that make C++ an object-oriented language. Of course, we have only scratched the surface of these powerful topics; in fact, we'll spend much of the rest of this book on the fundamentals of classes and objects. Unfortunately, it's impossible to cover these constructs in every detail in any one book, no matter how long or detailed it may be, and I'm not going to try to do that. Instead, we'll continue with our in-depth examination of the basics of object-oriented programming. In the next chapter we'll start on the task of creating a string class almost, but not exactly, like the one from the standard C++ library that we've been using so far in this book.