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From: fkuhl@mitre.org (F. S. Kuhl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: reference parameters for overloaded operators
Summary: What's the slicing problem?
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Date: 21 Aug 90 11:41:26 GMT
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In article <56749@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
>Also, whenever doing polymorphic programming [as in vtables and virtual
>functions, not polymophic via parameter overloading] one should call
>by reference to avoid the slicing problem.

OK, I give.  What's the slicing problem?  C++ already looks to my
uninitiated mind like a Swiss Army knife.

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Frederick Kuhl			fkuhl@mitre.org
Civil Systems Division
The MITRE Corporation