Class question - solved

[[praetorian]]

Why do I have to have these things that are marked in bold below in the code?

class keeper
{
private:
	int hours;
	int minutes;
public:
	keeper();
	keeper(int s, int p);
	void addKeeper(int, int);
	void writeKeeper(keeper &k);
	keeper getKeeper(keeper &h, char *name);	keeper operator+(const keeper &k) const;
	void show();
	~keeper() {};
};
.
.
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keeper keeper::getKeeper(keeper &h, char *name)
{
	ifstream fin;
	fin.open(name);

	for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
	{
		switch(i)
		{
		case 0: fin >> h.hours;
			break;
		case 1: fin >> h.minutes;
			break;
		}
	}
	fin.close();

	return h;


}

I know I can't have void keeper::........, but why do I have to have keeper beofre the code?

thanx