Re: Inheritance
On Apr 29, 1:22 am, Rolf Magnus <ramag...@t-online.de> wrote:
dasjotre wrote:
On 27 Apr, 11:31, Murali <nalajala.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have 2 questions.
1) How do i make a class so that no other classes can't be derive from
my class?
2) Do i declare the constructor as private? Can any one explain when
exactly it is useful?
check FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/strange-inheritance.html#faq-23.11
I personally prefer
class A // DON'T DERIVE FROM THIS !
..
I prefer letting the user of the class decide whether he finds it useful =
to
derive from it.
Which is, of course, very poor engineering. You can't write
robust code if you don't know what it will be used for. If the
requirement specifications state that the class will be used as
a base class, you write it considerably differently than if they
don't.
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