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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Variable sized objects
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Date: 11 Dec 89 19:22:31 GMT
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Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
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Variable sized objects are quite useful and work fine. The only thing
you cannot do is derive from a variable size class.

Does anyone know how to *prevent* a derivation from a particular class
(i.e. cause a compile-time error if you try it)?