From kde-devel  Wed Oct 27 16:29:50 2004
From: Richard Smith <kde () metafoo ! co ! uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:29:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Byte order conversions
Message-Id: <200410271729.50796.kde () metafoo ! co ! uk>
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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:13, Rüdiger Knörig wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2004 15:29 schrieb Richard Smith:
> > On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:14, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > BTW, in your ConvertEndianness class, why does it have a virtual
> > > destructor? For that matter, why does it have constructor and
> > > destructors at all?
> >
> > Why is it even a class?
>
> Its a class because it is a collection of related functions/methods.

That sounds like a namespace. A class is the type of an object, with the 
purpose of encapsulating data and operations on that object.
-- 
Thanks,
Richard
 
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