Instantiation of Base Class.
I'm quiet sure the member data ' testData ' can't be initialized by
Msg::TradeMsg class nor by Msg::OrderMsg class. But wanted to double
check if there is any way, we can instantiate Msg::testData from
TradeMsg && OrderMsg, preserving the class Msg declaration. Sample
code follows:
// Lets preserve the declaration of class Msg as is..
class Msg{
public:
int testData;
public:
Msg();
class TradeMsg;
class OrderMsg;
~Msg();
};
class Msg::TradeMsg{
public:
TradeMsg(){
// Can we instantiate the Msg datamember like
this ?
testData = 5;
}
~TradeMsg(){
}
};
class Msg::OrderMsg{
public:
OrderMsg(){
testData = 7; // Again Can we assign value to testData like this ?
}
};
int main (){
TradeMsg trdMsg;
OrderMsg ordMsg;
return 0;
}
We can instantiate, if class Msg is declared as base and let TradeMsg,
OrderMsg inherit from " Msg ". Can we confirm if inheritance is the
only mechanism to instantiate the data member of class " Msg ".
Thank you for your time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Wg
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