C++: Can a struct inherit from a class?

Question

I am looking at the implementation of an API that I am using.

I noticed that a struct is inheriting from a class and I paused to ponder on it...

First, I d

Answer 1

Yes a struct can inherit from a class. struct and class differ only in the access-specifier assumed for the members and for a base classes (or structs) if not specified explicitly in C++ . For structs it's public. For classes it's private.

The sentence you quote from the manual is about the concept of a class in C++, as compared to the concept of a data structure in C. In C++ new keyword - class was introduced to better reflect the change in the concept, but for compatibility with code in C, an old keyword struct was left and it's meaning is as described above.