Why put a class declaration and definition in two separate files in C++?

Question

I\'m just wondering, what is the whole point of separating classes into an .h and a .cpp file? It makes it harder to edit, and if your class won\'t be compiled into a .lib o

Answer 1

Because even within your DLL other classes will use your class. Those files must see the class declaration at compile time, by including the .h. They must not see the definition or there will be multiple definitions of the class functions.