C++ programming style

Question

I\'m an old (but not too old) Java programmer, that decided to learn C++. But I have seen that much of C++ programming style, is... well, just damn ugly!

All that stuff

Answer 1

If you want to implement all your methods inside your class definitions, you will have big monster header files (it's not a good idea to declare classes in cpp files) and possibly only one cpp file (the one that has your main function).

So it's a matter of convenience.

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Edit:

I find the declaration-implementation separation actually helpful. When I have monster classes with ~150 methods whose implementation is generated using lots of preprocessor tricks, I often want to be able to tell the difference between...

• what the class can do (its interface, given by its declaration)
• how the class does it (its implementation)

Not being able to do that in either C# or Java is quite frustrating, especially when I don't have Intellisense at hand.