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C++ gotchas: pure virtual function calls

Geronimo2000 · 2003-07-28T11:48:50

This is an extremely specific question I suppose. If anyone owns the Dewhurst book, C++ gotchas, I found my confusion on page 220 in the polymorphism chapter. The end of the chapter appeared to say that calling a pure virtual function (i.e. the version of the function with = 0 ?) within the scope of it''s abstract base class without making the call static (i.e. without the Class:: ??) was undefined! I kept reading to see how I misread it, but I couldn''t see how I did. Is this still true, or how did I misread the book? Thanks a lot for any thoughts or help. G

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Started by Geronimo2000 July 27, 2003 09:30 PM

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July 28, 2003 11:48 AM

I agree - my experience has been that you can define pure virtual functions. If it''s non standard, or specific to Microsoft Visual Studio only, I wouldn''t know.

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