Deriving classes is fun, but there’s not a lot you can do with them—at least, not yet. The next step is to see how C++ implements type polymorphism, and this Exploration starts you on that journey.
Type Polymorphism
Recall from Exploration 37 that type polymorphism is the ability of a variable of type B to take the “form” of any class derived from B. The obvious question is “How?” The key in C++ is to use a magic keyword to declare a member function in a base class and also implement the function in a derived class with a different magic word. The magic keyword tells the compiler that you want to ...
