Re: only call dtor of derived class?
Pavel <pauldontspamtolk@removeyourself.dontspam.yahoo> wrote:
OOP works
well when roles and responsibilities of base classes are relatively stable; this
is far from true in many subject areas.
Inheritance is not the biggest advantage of OOP (even though it was intended
to be when originally designed). It's still extremely useful, of course
(for example inheritance-heavy OOP fits GUI implementations so well that
one could well think that OOP was invented precisely to solve the problem
of how to program GUIs). However, in average inheritance is not the strongest
point.
The biggest advantage of OOP is modularity. This goes well beyond what
you can do with C compilation units and structs. (Compilation units have the
big disadvantage that you can't "instantiate" more than one of them at a
time. C structs have accessibility and lifetime management problems.)
In C++ in particular OOP is a very strong tool because you can achieve a
high level of abstraction yet still produce very efficient code (especially
in term of memory usage, unlike most other OOP languages). RAII is also an
enormous advantage over C (even though strictly speaking it's not an OOP
feature).
Inheritance is just a "nice to have" extra feature that is sometimes
useful. It's not the main selling point.
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