From -1995793663034669316 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,3cdb654b702f7476 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: llewelly.@@edevnull.dot.com Subject: Re: virtual functions Date: 2000/08/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 660860143 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ References: <399A78E4.8345D7B@gmx.at> <399B8FA6.540D5B7F@gmx.at> X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 966890651 mail2news:10526 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/ X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2000 20:21:16 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ "michael" writes: > > It is true only inside constructors *and* destructors. In all other > > cases, the overriding method of the object's dynamic type is > > called. > > It is true during construction and destruction. > You can't defeat the behaviour by having the ctor forward to a helper. oops. Of course, thank you. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]