Difference between classes and structs?

[CoolGamer48]

Is there a difference between a class and a struct? At first I thought a struct could not have methods/constructors/destructors, but now I found out they can, so what is the difference?

[sarehu]

The difference is that things are public by default in structs.

[Majestics]

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[BlackJavaBean]

The Complete Reference C++ (4 ed) goes into pretty good detail about the relationship between a class and a struct. Basically, the struct is part of the C subset of C++ and was kept in the language (with some enhancements) so that C++ would always be compatible with C. The book also warns that, although you can do a lot with struct, it should be reserved for when you need to create a C-style structure [no data members, no constructors/destructors].

[CoolGamer48]

So, in C++ they made a WHOLE other, um, (I want to say structure, but that would be confusing), thing that's the exact same as a struct, which they could have kept, but they made a whole new one, just to make the default access level private?

[sarehu]

Yep. It might have been the case that the guy who designed C++ at first thought that only classes would have member functions, but then gave structs the ability too for some reason or another.