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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/15
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"Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:
> I could argue the point the other way.  In C++, the keyword "virtual" is
> used so often for so many different things, that it's hard to keep them
> all straight.

No, no, you're thinking of the keyword "static" :-)

The keyword virtual is used for only two completely different
things. A virtual method is dispatching. A virtual base class
is present only once in a derived object, regardless of how
many times it appears in the inheritance hierarchy (as virtual).