Re: how to invoke a method in C++?

From:

"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>

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Date:

31 Jul 2006 15:30:15 -0400

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Bob wrote:

My first language is Java and am now transferring to C++. I have two
questions.

(1) In Java, we have a very good API documentation. However, I could
not find an equivalent for C++. I tried to use the MSDN documentation
accompanying Visual Studio 2005. But I found it is not so good as the
JDK documentation provided by Sun.

Shouldn't you complain to MS about that?

For example, it is not easy to
distinguish from the documentation if a method in C++ is a static
method (invoked without an object), or the method is a instance method
(must be invoked by an object).

Not many standard class members are static.

I can recommend http://www.dinkumware.com/manuals/ as a potential
replacement for MSDN Library.

(2) The second question is actually the same as the first one. I don't
know in C++ when to invoke a method by an object (object.method()),
and when to invoke a method without an object (method()). Do you know
how to distinguish them? From the API provided by MSDN or elsewhere?

From docs, from compiler manuals, from books, from the Standard, from
online sources...

V
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