Topic: virtual functions not overridable anymore?
Author: Gerard Weatherby <gerardw@alum.mit.edu>
Date: 1997/09/08 Raw View
"Alexander Jung" <jung@new-line.de> wrote:
Cristian Georgescu <Cristian.Georgescu@worldnet.att.net> schrieb im
Beitrag
> Is there a way to specify that a virtual function should not be
> overridden anymore?
>
> (The function is declared as virtual in the base class, and overridden in
> the derived class, but I want that the classes derived from this class
> not to override function anymore).
put the member in the private part of your class declaration and add a
public non-virtual member that calls the virtual method if you still
want
to call it.
bye, AJ
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Non-intuitivity perhaps, but you CAN override a private base class
method. You just can't call it.
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Author: "Alexander Jung" <jung@new-line.de>
Date: 1997/08/28 Raw View
Cristian Georgescu <Cristian.Georgescu@worldnet.att.net> schrieb im Beitrag
> Is there a way to specify that a virtual function should not be
> overridden anymore?
>
> (The function is declared as virtual in the base class, and overridden in
> the derived class, but I want that the classes derived from this class
> not to override function anymore).
put the member in the private part of your class declaration and add a
public non-virtual member that calls the virtual method if you still want
to call it.
bye, AJ
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