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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Bug in multiple inheritence
Message-ID: <70223@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 19:16:35 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.190452.5204@lia> <472@mole-end.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <472@mole-end.UUCP> mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes:
|It is also noted in the commentary that this `slicing' may seem dangerous,
|but that it is consistant with all the other rules of the language, and that
|protections against probably would give a false confidence.

Compiler writers would do well to issue a warning when "slicing" is 
performed on objects with virtual functions.  It *could be* that this
slicing is want the programmer wants.  But the probability would seem
to be vanishingly small.