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C++ How to Program, 10/e
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C++ How to Program, 10/e

by Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel
February 2016
Beginner
1080 pages
207h 57m
English
Pearson
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... function toString on the CommissionEmployee object. This invokes the version of toString defined in base class CommissionEmployee.

Aiming a Derived-Class Pointer at a Derived-Class Object

Similarly, lines 34–35 create basePlusCommissionEmployeePtr—a pointer to a BasePlusCommissionEmployee object—and initialize it with the address of derived-class object basePlusCommissionEmployee. Line 39 uses the pointer to invoke member function to-String on the BasePlusCommissionEmployee object. This invokes the version of to-String defined in derived class BasePlusCommissionEmployee.

Aiming a Base-Class Pointer at a Derived-Class Object

Line 42 then assigns the address of derived-class object basePlusCommissionEmployee to base-class pointer commissionEmployeePtr ...

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