confusion with abstract methods.

July 22nd, 2005, 09:58 AM

TheFerryman

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Why doesn't compile? I would have thought the dtor of Base would call
Derived::f()

struct Base
{
virtual void f() = 0;

virtual ~Base(){f();}
};

struct Derived : public Base
{
virtual void f(){cout << "\nIn Derived f";}
};

int main()
{
Derived d;

return 0;
}

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