From: "Simon Sulser" <simonsulser AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Pointers and Arrays (Newbie)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:01:51 +0200
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The compiler doesn't make any differences between header or cpp files. But
the precompiler does. It interpretes the #include statement like this: take
the header file and the cpp file including the header and make it like one
"big" file which is to be passed to the compiler, which then just translates
c/c++ to object code.

Well that might not be a 100% detailed explanation, but basically that's the
reason why you still can have definition in header files.

Simon