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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: .h and .cpp
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:23:01 +1300
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On 11/30/11 09:15 AM, Christopher wrote:
> On Nov 29, 1:55 am, Juha Nieminen<nos...@thanks.invalid>  wrote:
>>> 1b) A .h file should never contain class implementation (except for
>>> inline functions or methods)
>>
>>    That's a null statement. If a header file contains implementations,
>> they will be inline by necessity (else you'll get linker errors if the
>> header is included more than once), so that rule isn't really saying
>> anything.
>
>
> I've seen this claim in several of the replies. I made a minimal
> example that compiles and links in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (what they
> use at work).
>
> --ClassA.h---
> #ifndef CLASSA_H
> #define CLASSA_H
>
> #include<iostream>
>
> class A
> {
> public:
>
>      A()
>      :
>          m_x(0)
>      {
>          std::cout<<  "Contructor"<<  std::endl;
>      }

This is an inline function.

-- 
Ian Collins