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Notes about C++
Basic facilities
The general notation of objects in C++

Objects in C++ have a generalized meaning compared to many other object-oriented programming languages

An object is "something in memory"

  • The C++ Programming Language: Page 84
 

  • The low-level notation of a C++ object

    • Something in memory - a contiguous region of storage

    • An array

    • A variable

An instance of a class is both an object in the low-level meaning, and the well-established OOP meaning of the word