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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: How to assign an object to another in it method?
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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> But it shows the same thing.
> [...]
> But:
> - you would get the same effect without default values for non-virtual 
> methods

default values in C++ are not polymorphic, so, indeed, it
would seem consistent with non-polymorphic (non-virtual)
methods.


> - how do you know that the method is virtual without noticing the 
> default values?

by letting the override do something observably different,
as my own example did.