5.2. A Tour of Object-Oriented Programming
Let’s implement a simple three-level class hierarchy to introduce the C++ language constructs and programming idioms that support object-oriented programming. We root our class hierarchy with the abstract LibMat base class. We derive a Book class from LibMat and in turn derive an AudioBook class from Book. We limit our interface to a single function, print(), together with a constructor and destructor. I’ve instrumented each member function to output its presence so that we can trace the behavior of the program.
By default, a member function is resolved statically at compile-time. To have a member function resolved dynamically during run-time, we preface its declaration with the virtual keyword. The ...
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