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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition
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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

by P. J. Deitel, H. M. Deitel, D. T. Quirk
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1552 pages
46h 20m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 14. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

 

One Ring to rule the mall, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

 
 --John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
 

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.

 
 --William Shakespeare
 

General propositions do not decide concrete cases.

 
 --Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn’t think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

 
 --Alfred North Whitehead

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

  • What polymorphism is, how it makes programming more convenient and how it makes systems more extensible and maintainable.

  • To declare and use virtual functions ...

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