August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 38m
English
Difficulty: 7
In this Item, we delve into old questions with new and/or improved answers. The up-to-date answers to two recurring questions about virtual functions lead directly to four guidelines targeting robust class design. These guidelines answer these questions: why should interfaces be nonvirtual? why should virtuals be private? and what's with the old and hoary advice about base class destructors, and is the old hoary advice really true?
In this Item, I want to present up-to-date answers to two recurring questions ...