Re: dependent inheritance?
* cerr:
Hi There,
Am I able to define what class the current class is inherited from at
runtime in the constructor?
No, and it's not a good idea.
Let me try to make an example:
We got two mother classes Car and Bus with completely different
methods.
Now i would like to instance a new class, let's call it NewVehicle.
Now can I decide in NewVehicle's constructor what class it's inherited
from (Car or Bus) if i was gonna go like:
NewVehicle *MyInstance = NewVehicle(Car);
?
No, but you can do the following:
* Define an abstract class Vehicle with virtual methods, and not to
forget, a virtual destructor.
* Define a class CarVehicle that inherits from and implements Vehicle,
either containing a Car member or inheriting privately from Car.
* And a ditto BusVehicle class.
Then you can do
Vehicle* pVehicle = new CarVehicle;
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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