Assignment and polymorphism

Breymann, Ulrich

Assignment and polymorphism

Copy assignment of C++ objects of derived classes does not seem to be a trivial task for classes that need a special (i.e., not system-generated) copy constructor, destructor, and assignment operator. After discussing the meaning of copy assignment, I address polymorphic assignment and the corresponding type roles


SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
METHODS
OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE C++

H004.415 JOU