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TC/C++ CONSIDERATIONS

When taking advantage of the ability to define classes in TC and C++, it is common practice to place each class definition in a header file, and the definitions of the member functions of the class in a separate source file.  In the example in Chapter 4 the Person class was defined in 'person.h' and its methods in 'person.c'.  The source file #includes the corresponding header, as do all files which make use of the Person class definition; namely 'student.h' and 'main.c'.

Notice that 'main.c' #includes 'student.h' as well.  This suggests that the contents of       'person.h' are included twice in 'main.c', producing an error due to duplicate definition.  To avoid this, Think C allows the programmer to place the directive:

    # define    _H_person.h

at the beginning of the header 'person.h'.  This ensures the file's contents are compiled only once.  In C++ conditional compilation must be made explicitly, as discussed in the following section.

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