An instance of a data type
An object is an instance of a data type.
The function in Listing 1 declares two items.
The first item is an instance of a simple integer of type int.
The second item is an instance of an abstract data type of a class named Date.
Listing 1. Two instances of a type.
void f(){
...
int ndays;//instance of an int
Date cdt; //instance of the abstract data type Date
...
}//end function
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