On 5 May 2015 at 12:39, Aditya K wrote: > There are however, other differences between class and struct > (http://stackoverflow.com/a/999810/811335) i.e., > > 1. In absence of an access-specifier for a base class, public is assumed when > the derived class is declared struct and private is assumed when the class is > declared class.
Yes, everyone here knows that. That is only relevant to the definition of the class, which can only occur once. For the purposes of declarations that are not definitions there is no difference. > 2. class can be used in place of a typename to declare a template parameter, > while the struct cannot. Completely irrelevant in this context. The use of 'class' in a template parameter list has nothing to do with struct or class types, nor forward declarations of struct or class types.
