Re: What's the meaning of "protected" ?
On 05/11/2010 13:41, gwowen wrote:
On Nov 5, 1:32 pm, Stuart Golodetz<b...@blah.com> wrote:
You can't just say "a square is-a rectangle, so public
inheritance is obviously the right choice".
Well, all that means is "you can't reason about classes based on a
naive understanding of what the class name means in [your native
language here]". Which is a shame, otherwise we could do cool stuff
like
It depends on whether you think that's an unimportant point or not I
guess :) Judging by the number of novice programmers who get confused by
this, I'm inclined to think it's at least fairly important.
class Bus {
// ...
}
class RouteMaster : public Bus {
// ...
}
class ParallelSCSI : public Bus {
// ...
}
Lol :)
template <typename What>
class Bus
{
virtual ~Bus() {}
virtual void transport(const What& what) = 0;
};
class RouteMaster : public Bus<People>
{
//...
};
class ParallelSCSI : public Bus<Data>
{
//...
};
Cheers,
Stu
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