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I. Horton, P. Van WeertBeginning C++23https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9343-0_15

15. Polymorphism

Ivor Horton1   and Peter Van Weert2
(1)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK
(2)
Kessel-Lo, Belgium
 

Polymorphism is such a powerful feature of object-oriented programming that you’ll use it in the majority of your C++ programs. Polymorphism requires you to use derived classes, so the content of this chapter relies heavily on the concepts related to inheritance in derived classes that we introduced in the previous chapter.

In this chapter, you’ll learn

  • What polymorphism is and how you get polymorphic behavior with your classes

  • What a virtual function is

  • What ...

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