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From: mikem@otc.otca.oz (Mike Mowbray)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: fixing pitfall in virtual members
Message-ID: <638@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 26 Feb 89 03:39:48 GMT
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    ** Ron Guilmette suggested that the trouble could be avoided by having
       the base class version of the virtual function do something like abort().

    **  Webster Dove supported this, indicating that this was his standard
	advice when writing a base class.

If the inheritance depth were greater than 1, this scheme wouldn't make sense.


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