Re: multimap and abstract class

From:

Sam <sam@email-scan.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:12:29 -0500

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Barry writes:

Hi,

I have an abstract class called "Event" and a number of classes which
inherit from it, including "NoteOn" and "NoteOff".

I am now attempting to create a multimap called EventList, as follows
-

#ifndef EVENT_LIST_H

#include <map>
#include "Event.h"

class EventList : public std::multimap<double,Event>
{
public:
    EventList(void);
    virtual ~EventList(void);
};

#endif

#ifndef EVENT_H

class Event
{
public:
    Event(void);
    virtual void dummy() = 0;
    virtual ~Event(void);
};

#endif

but this isn't allowed according to my compiler because 'Event' :
cannot instantiate abstract class.

I don't understand why I get this fail since I haven't even created a
EventList object yet.

Because the compiler evaluates the template definition, and finds out that
some of the template functions end up instantiating an abstract class,
which, of course, is an error.

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