. In classes all the members by default are private but in structure members are public by default. There is no term like constructor and destructor for structs, but for class compiler creates default if you don't provide. Sizeof empty structure is 0 Bytes wer as Sizeof empty class is 1 Byte The struct default access type is public. A struct should typically be used for grouping data. The class default access type is private, and the default mode for inheritance is private. A class should be used for grouping data and methods that operate on that data. In short, the convention is to use struct when the purpose is to group data, and use classes when we require data abstraction and, perhaps inheritance. In C++ structures and classes are passed by value, unless explicitly de-referenced. In other languages classes and structures may have distinct semantics - ie. objects (instances of classes) may be passed by reference and structures may be passed by value. Note: There are comments associated with this question. See the discussion page to add to the conversation.

Iso iec14882 -2003 9类 §3 结构是用定义的类 类键结构体;它的成员 基类(第10条)是 默认为公开(第11条)。

唯一的其他区别是类和结构的默认继承，不出意外，它们分别是私有和公共的。

虽然其他答案暗示了这一点，但并没有明确提到——结构体是与C兼容的，这取决于用法;课程不是。

这意味着如果你想要编写一个与C兼容的头文件，那么除了struct(在C世界中不能有函数;但可以有函数指针)。

oops中structure和class关键字的主要区别在于，structure中没有public和private成员声明。数据成员和成员函数可以定义为public、private和protected。

综上所述，我们可以得出结论，概念Class比“Structures”更适合代表现实世界中的对象。很大程度上是因为在课堂上使用的面向对象的概念在解释现实场景时非常实用，因此更容易将它们合并到现实中。例如，对于结构体，默认继承是公共的，但如果我们将此规则应用于现实世界，那就太荒谬了。但在类中，默认继承是私有的，这更现实。

无论如何，我需要证明的是类是一个更广泛的，现实世界适用的概念，而结构是一个原始的概念，具有糟糕的内部组织(即使结构遵循面向对象的概念，他们有一个糟糕的含义)