Re: polymiorphism and access privilege ?

From:
Barry <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:25:14 +0800
Message-ID:
<fcva2c$6p2$1@aioe.org>
sun1991 wrote:

I recently come to this thought, and did a test:

class B1
{
public:
    virtual void Func()
    {
        std::cout << "Here is B1" << "\n";
    }
};

class B2: public B1
{
private:
    virtual void Func()
    {
        std::cout << "Here is B2" << "\n";
    }
};

class B3: public B2
{
public:
    virtual void Func()
    {
        std::cout << "Here is B3" << "\n";
    }
};

int main()
{
    B1* pB2 = new B2();
    B1* pB3 = new B3();
    pB2->Func();
    pB3->Func();

    delete pB2;
    delete pB3;

    return 0;
}

---
Func() in class B2 is under private tag, but seems it has no problem
to be called in main(), why? Is that means when polymiorphism, the
access privilege is just up to base class?


Access control has nothing to do with polymorphism,
Your code compiles, because all the function you call (Func) is a member
  of B1 , which is *public*; and pB2 and pB3 are both pointers to B1.
Which Func to called is to be decided during *run-time*.

C++ is more flexible on the derived class with its choosing access
control for overridding functions

In C# and Java,
You can't override a public function with protected/private access.

--
Thanks
Barry

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