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A struct in C++ is equivalent to a class, except that members of a struct default to public access, instead of private access as in classes. By convention, structs are used instead of classes to represent simple data structures that mainly contain public fields.
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© 2013 Mikael Olsson
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Olsson, M. (2013). Struct and Union. In: C++ Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6278-7_19
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