I'm looking for the description of rules for overriding virtual
functions in the DWP, and couldn't find it. The rule I'm looking for it
about the return type of a virtual function. Both in Scott Meyer's book
and Barton and Nackman's book said that the following kind of virtual
function overriding is legal:

class A {
 virtual A* Clone() const;
};

class B: public A {
 virtual B* Clone() const;
};

Does anyone know which section I should look into? I read section 10.3
(??) and it doesn't seem to be there.

[mod note: It has been in paragraph 5 of 10.3 in every issue of the
 DWP at least since the April 1995 publi-release version. - sdc ]

Thanks

Kin Chan



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