Question

OK I had read some article recently which said like :

Every name declared in c++ has type associated with it. e.g

int a; //type of a int 
void foo(); //type is void(*)()
class bar; //what is type of bar here then ?

Answer 1

It doesn’t have a “type” in the traditional sense, but rather, is a type. While in some languages like Ruby or Objective-C, classes are objects (objects of class Class), in C++, classes have no type beyond being a type. They do have an associated type_info, but that is not the class itself, rather just some information that must be accessed through typeid.

bar is not of type bar. bar is not even an object. Bar is a type, which, as said before, in C++, have no type.