Re: Inheritance question

relient <xllx.relient.xllx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, yes... One last thing I forgot to say above (which was my primary
question; hehe) is: override and abstract in the same signature doesn't
make much sense to me. I mean, It's not like you can create an instance
of class "Derived" and assign it to a variable of type class Base, to
use in polymorphism, because it's abstract. I do, however, understand
if it was "new abstract" but, "override abstract"? what's up with that
confusing signature?

It's not that confusing - it basically means that the derived class
*has* to implement the method, and it's an override so that if someone
has:

Base b = new Third();
b.DrawYourself();

it will still call the overridden method in Third. (If it were "new
abstract" in Derived, the above would call Base.DrawYourself.)

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