Re: Private method has been invokated as interface
In article <1147102381.813481.135920@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Alex
Vinokur <alexvn@users.sourceforge.net> writes
In program below a private method has been invokated as interface.
It is techically clear, but it is intuitively unclear.
And the problem is?
------ foobar.cpp ------
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class Base
{
public:
virtual void foo() = 0;
};
class Derived : public Base
{
private:
void foo() { cout << "foo(): I am private" << endl; }
};
And this is a perfectly reasonable idiom if you do not want objects of
type Derived to be used directly but only by use of pointers or
references to Base.
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