On 2007-08-24 15:14, arnuld wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:55:13 -0700, tom wrote:
>
>> The question in the book stated as below: (I copied from the book)
>
>> Write your own version of the sales_item class, adding two new public
>> members to read and write sales_item objects. There functions should
>> operate similarly to the input and output operations used in chapter
>> 1. Transactions should look like the ones defined in that chapter as
>> well. Use this class to read and write a set of transactions.
>
>> The chapter is talking about functions, and I think the author wants
>> to get you familiar with how to write functions.
>
> 1st, read again, author wants us to write member functions (not
> functions).

Member functions are functions, hence the name.

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Erik Wikström