Hi,
I have a problem about the overriding of private methods of base
class.
That is, if a method f() of base class is private, can the derived
class overriding f() be overriding?
For example,
class base {
private:
virtual void f() {
//some codes
}
public:
void ff() {
f();
//invoke the f()
}
};
class derived : public base {
public:
virtual void f() {
//some other codes
}
};
int main()
{
base * pobj = new derived;
pobj->f();
//which method will be invoked here?
//the base's f() or derived's one?
return 0;
}
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Hongzheng Wang
Department of Electronics Engineering
Tsinghua University wa******@mails. tsinghua.edu.cn 5 2721
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news:bq******** **@news.yaako.c om... I have a problem about the overriding of private methods of base class.
What problem?
That is, if a method f() of base class is private, can the derived class overriding f() be overriding?
Sure can. For example,
class base { private: virtual void f() { //some codes } public: void ff() { f(); //invoke the f() } };
class derived : public base { public: virtual void f() { //some other codes } };
int main() { base * pobj = new derived; pobj->f(); //which method will be invoked here? //the base's f() or derived's one?
None. base::f is private, the program won't compile. However,
if you write
pobj->ff();
then derived::f() will be invoked from base::ff.
return 0; }
Victor
I'm very very sorry for spell error.
I mean pobj->ff();
not pobj->f(); for accessiblity.
Hongzheng Wang wrote: Hi, I have a problem about the overriding of private methods of base class.
That is, if a method f() of base class is private, can the derived class overriding f() be overriding?
For example,
class base { private: virtual void f() { //some codes } public: void ff() { f(); //invoke the f() } };
class derived : public base { public: virtual void f() { //some other codes } };
int main() { base * pobj = new derived; pobj->f();
pobj->ff(); //which method will be invoked here? //the base's f() or derived's one? return 0; }
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Department of Electronics Engineering
Tsinghua University wa******@mails. tsinghua.edu.cn
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// snip For example,
class base { private: virtual void f() { //some codes } public: void ff() { f(); //invoke the f() } };
class derived : public base { public: virtual void f() { //some other codes } };
int main() { base * pobj = new derived; pobj->f();
I suppose you mean pobj->ff() here
//which method will be invoked here? //the base's f() or derived's one? return 0; }
Indeed you discovered a well known pattern to establish pre and
postcondistions . Your function
base::ff() could then look like this:
void base::ff()
{
check_precondit ions();
f();
check_postcondi tions();
}
Some say most or even every virtual function should be made private,
optionally accompanied by a
non virtual public function in the base class.
HTH
Norbert
Whether a function is public, private or protected is orthogonal to
its being virtual.
In fact, many believe there should be no public virtual functions:
That virtual functions should be private, and in some rare cases
protected (only when the overriding function in a derived class needs
to call the overridden function in its parent class); and that
non-virtual public functions should be provided, calling the private
virtual functions, where private virtual functions need to be
publically accessible. I can't remember exactly the rationale for
this discipline, but I've come to apply it regularly, anyhow. It just
seems cleaner to me.
Cheers!
Dan W. wrote: Whether a function is public, private or protected is orthogonal to its being virtual.
In fact, many believe there should be no public virtual functions: That virtual functions should be private, and in some rare cases protected (only when the overriding function in a derived class needs to call the overridden function in its parent class); and that non-virtual public functions should be provided, calling the private virtual functions, where private virtual functions need to be publically accessible. I can't remember exactly the rationale for this discipline, but I've come to apply it regularly, anyhow. It just seems cleaner to me. Cheers!
Thank you all! Your help are very helpful to me :-)
In fact, this problem is due to a similar one in my friend's
problem about Java. I found his java program does not run as
I imagine (of course think in C++).
Thank you.
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Hongzheng Wang
Department of Electronics Engineering
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