Re: interface programming

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It's not at all academic.

You are right. I was thinking that the presence of virtual member functions
(pure or not) meant that the compiler would implicitly generate a virtual
destructor. But the standard is silent on that point in 12.4.

Only if the class is derived from a base class which has a virtual
destructor does the standard speak up and mandate that any derived class's
implicitly generated destructor must be virtual.

Stephen Howe


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