Keywords in C and C++ Programming Language

Keywords are words which belongs to C++ language. They have standard predefined meaning. These words should be used only for their intended purpose. The users have no right to change its meaning. Keywords should be written in lowercase.

New keywords in C++

C++ language contains all the keywords in C language. In addition to this some more keywords are added to make C++ language as an object oriented language. These keywords are called new keywords. In other words new keywords are words which belongs to C++ language only.

Examples for Keywords:

1) New keywords

asm   catch   friend    private   public
this    try   new       new       class
inline  protected       throw     virtual

2) Keywords common to C and C++

float   signed    auto    for   sizeof
break   static    case    goto  struct
if      switch    char    int   const
long    continue  default typedef union
do      unsigned  double  else  register
void    enum      return  volatile extern