Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile?
On 02/01/2012 23:46, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
On 02.01.2012 21:16, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
My intention is to
- Create an abstract base class "Shape" that must be an "Observer"
- Create an class "Square" that is a "Shape" and also an
"ObserverImp"
I thought I could do this like so:
struct Observer
{
virtual void Notify() = 0;
};
struct ObserverImp : public Observer
{
void Notify() {}
};
Use virtual inheritance for the interface (that is for `Observer`).
struct Shape : public virtual Observer
{
};
struct Square : public Shape, public ObserverImp
{
};
Technically OK.
Shape* ShapeFactory()
Please use different naming conventions for types and functions.
Typical Alf nonsense.
This is a style issue and different people use different styles.
For good examples of using the same naming convention for both types and
functions see the C++ standard library.
Personally I use the same naming convention for types and functions
(under_scores) and a different one for variable/object names
(prefixedCamelCase).
/Leigh
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