Member functions (C++ only)

Member functions are operators and functions that are declared as members of a class. Member functions do not include operators and functions declared with the friend specifier. These are called friends of a class. You can declare a member function as static; this is called a static member function. A member function that is not declared as static is called a nonstatic member function.

The definition of a member function is within the scope of its enclosing class. The body of a member function is analyzed after the class declaration so that members of that class can be used in the member function body, even if the member function definition appears before the declaration of that member in the class member list. When the function add() is called in the following example, the data variables a, b, and c can be used in the body of add().

class x
{
public:
   int add()             // inline member function add
   {return a+b+c;}
private:
   int a,b,c;
};