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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:23:51 +1000
Subject: Re: OT: This Swift thing
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Alain Ketterlin
<alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:
>> It's impossible to accidentally call a base class's method when you
>> ought to have called the overriding method in the subclass, which is a
>> risk in C++ [2].
>
> I don't how this can happen in C++, unless you actually have an instance
> of the base class. Anyway, I didn't mention C++.

Mostly if you forget to declare the method 'virtual'; there are other
ways to muck things up, but that's the main one.

ChrisA