In practical applications, the member functions of base classes is rarely used for doing any operation; such
functions are called as do-nothing functions, dummy functions, or pure virtual functions. The do-nothing
function or pure functions are always virtual functions. Normally pure virtual functions are defined
with null-body. This is so because derived classes should be able to override them. Any normal function cannot
be declared as pure function. After ...
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