C H A P T E R  10

Structs

What Are Structs?

Structs are programmer-defined data types, very similar to classes. They have data members and function members. Although structs are similar to classes, there are a number of important differences. The most important ones are the following:

  • Classes are reference types, and structs are value types.
  • Structs are implicitly sealed, which means they cannot be derived from.

The syntax for declaring a struct is similar to that of declaring a class:

    

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