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From: ell@access5.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/02/11
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Nick Leaton (nickle@calfp.co.uk) wrote:
: richard@highrise.nl wrote:
: > 
: > Virtual functions are also a kind of documentation. When declaring a
: > function virtual, the programmer is more or less saying "go ahead,
: > override this function if you like."
: > 
 
: The decision to make a function virtual assumes a knowledge of what
: users of your class are going to do. It akin to predicting the future.
: One of the problems with C++ is this very point. Should you, as a
: designer of a class restrict what someone else does with your class?

How does making inherited classes able to override a parent function
"restrict"ing "what someone else does with" that class"?

Elliott