Re: Can my class tell if one of its virtual members is overloaded?

Tony Maresca <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When you say "the base class doesn't know anything
> about the derived classes",
>
> Um, not sure about that. If my base class can get the
> type of an instance of a derived class, how can we say
> that a base class cannot discover anything about derived
> classes, at runtime?
>
> Are you absolutely sure about that?

The point is that you can never know what all the derived classes of a
type are, unless it's internal. So although all the created instances
of derived types may not override a member, that doesn't mean there
isn't another type around which *does* override a member.

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