Re: Derived Class Constructors
On 5/2/07 2:46 PM, in article
1178142398.146346.276500@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com, "nozyrev"
<drmapando@gmail.com> wrote:
I apologize in advance if this is a very dumb question. I've been
struggling with this problem for some time: I have an abstract base
class called Base and n derived classes D1, D2, ....Dn. I would like
to have a constructor for each derived class that takes any of the
other derived classes as an argument so that these statements are
valid:
D1 d1;
D2 d2;
D3 d3a(d1);
D3 d3b(d2);
What is the syntax that I have to use for those statements to compile.
I realize that, for any given derived class i, I can't use Di (const
Base& b) as the constructor. Do i need to use virtual constructors? If
so, how?
No, but a class template and some typedefs might help. Something along the
lines of:
class Base
{
public:
virtual ~Base() {}
virtual void f() = 0;
};
template <int I>
class D : public Base
{
public:
D() {}
D(const D& d ) {}
template <int I2>
D(const D<I2>& d) {}
// to do: add operator=
void f() {}
};
typedef D<1> D1;
typedef D<2> D2;
typedef D<3> D3;
int main()
{
D1 d1;
D2 d2;
D3 d3a(d1);
D3 d3b(d2);
}
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