Re: redefine and override

From: Francis Glassborow (francis_at_robinton.demon.co.uk)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:48:10 +0100

In message <MBotc.93566$dP1.299791@newsc.telia.net>, Tony Johansson
<johansson.andersson@telia.com> writes
>Hello experts!!
>
>I would like to know what is the difference between redefine and override.
>
>I'm reading in a book and here it says a virtual function is one that a
>derived class can override.
>In another place in the book it says generally your classes should use
>virtual function. However, if you
>do not want a derived class to redefine a particular member function, the
>function should not be virtual.
>
>So what exactly is to override and redefine.

Which side of the bed the author got out of that day :-) 

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