From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-12-14T11:29:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: What is a class for?

On Dec 13, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Matthias Borgeson wrote:

> While I think of methods as little tools I can create to do things  
> whenever I want in the main program, I have no idea how a class used


Expanding on this analogy, classes are tools for building more tools,  
tools which can be much more powerful than a single method can be.  
Because it holds variables as well as methods, an object created by a  
class can maintain its state over the course of a computation. Think  
of methods as tooling and the objects built from a class as complete  
machine tools. A method is to a milling cutter as a object is to a  
multi-axis milling machine.

Regards, Morton