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(04-15-2012 01:53 AM)nemesis567 Wrote:  Suppose there is a class myClass and inside there is a memberFunction() which has the same name but is different in both functions.

If I Aim a Base-Class Pointer at a Derived-Class Object and then use the pointer to call the function, supposedly the function called is the one from the derived class. But what happens if I aim a Derived-Class pointer to a Base-Class Object? Should it call the derived class function or won't it work? What if the member function of the derived class, calls another member function that only exists in the Base-Class?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "aim", but here's how inheritance works in terms of methods: So long as the derived class (subclass) doesn't redefine the parent method, then the parent definition of the method will be used for the derived class. If the method is redefined in the derived class, then the only way to call the parent's method when calling the same method from the derived class is by calling, e.g., BaseClass::memberFunction() within the redefined method.

Of course, in C++ we have the keyword virtual which touches on this, but i won't get into that now.

(04-15-2012 02:00 AM)Homicide13 Wrote:  I have strings of single digit integers that I want the compiler to read as integers instead of strings, but I'm not sure if there is any way to actually do this.

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