Re: derived class and virtual function
On 13 aug, 23:03, Paavo Helde <myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote:
=D6=F6 Tiib <oot...@hot.ee> wrote in news:986f31ea-f0ee-40c0-bad6-
af5f48f1d...@v41g2000yqv.googlegroups.com:
On Aug 13, 1:05 pm, "Francesco S. Carta" <entul...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com>, on 13/08/2010 21:55:16, wrote:
No. Once a virtual, always a virtual. You can't redeclare a virtual
function as non-virtual.
Ah, very good to know, that will save me some keystrokes in the future
;-) Thanks a lot for the clarification.
It is forbidden by some policies to use that "implicit virtuality"
feature.
Rationale is that it is already hard to notice that something is
override of virtual of base of base in C++ and omitted "virtual" makes
it even simpler to miss. Bugs with polymorphism are causing lot more
problems in practice than bad memory management.
Some compilers have support for declaring explicitly that the function is
intended to be a virtual override (eg. MSVC has the 'override' keyword
for that). If this is not the case (eg. because of mismatch of the
function signature) a compile-time error occurs. I find this feature
quite useful, but it means even more keystrokes (and is non-portable).
It can be perhaps macroed to portable if all in team are ready to use
it.
// put into platform specific configuration headers
#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1400) // VS 2005+
# define OVERRIDE override
# pragma warning( disable : 4481 ) // nonstandard "override" used
#else
# define OVERRIDE
#endif
// example code
struct I
{
virtual void f();
};
struct X : public I
{
void f() OVERRIDE {}
};
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