How to create class which can't be inherited

[KP]

How can we create class which other class can't be inherited or we can say
how to protect class from inheritance ? ( e.g. final class in java, if a
class is final in java, then this class can't be inherited)

Ketan

[pavan734]

Hello is this Ajay who posted this message

[KP]

No, this is not ajay. I don't know if this question has been already asked
in this group. Do you know any solution of this?
<pa******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ e56g2000cwe.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello is this Ajay who posted this message

[Gavin Deane]

KP wrote:

How can we create class which other class can't be inherited or we can say
how to protect class from inheritance ? ( e.g. final class in java, if a
class is final in java, then this class can't be inherited)

This is in the FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...html#faq-23.11

Gavin Deane

[Alex Buell]

On 23 Mar 2006 01:39:24 -0800 "Gavin Deane" <de*********@ho tmail.com>
waved a wand and this message magically appeared:

How can we create class which other class can't be inherited or we can say
how to protect class from inheritance ? ( e.g. final class in java, if a
class is final in java, then this class can't be inherited)

This is in the FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...html#faq-23.11

I tried writing a class that can't be inherited but can be used but
couldn't get it to work; perhaps I'm not understanding this properly.

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[Gavin Deane]

Alex Buell wrote:

On 23 Mar 2006 01:39:24 -0800 "Gavin Deane" <de*********@ho tmail.com>
waved a wand and this message magically appeared:

How can we create class which other class can't be inherited or we can say
how to protect class from inheritance ? ( e.g. final class in java, if a
class is final in java, then this class can't be inherited)

This is in the FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...html#faq-23.11

I tried writing a class that can't be inherited but can be used but
couldn't get it to work; perhaps I'm not understanding this properly.

I think that FAQ has been around for some time, and I've seen it
referred to before. I would expect any mistakes in it to have been
caught by now. I can't say for definite from my own experience, having
never needed to write a "final" class.

Post a minimal complete program
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...t.html#faq-5.8
that uses the techniques in the FAQ but doesn't work as you'd like and
you should get some help.

Gavin Deane

[Alex Buell]

On 23 Mar 2006 02:59:12 -0800 "Gavin Deane" <de*********@ho tmail.com>
waved a wand and this message magically appeared:

Post a minimal complete program
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...t.html#faq-5.8
that uses the techniques in the FAQ but doesn't work as you'd like and
you should get some help.

I think I've got the idea:

#include <iostream>

class NotInheritable
{
public:
static NotInheritable create() { return NotInheritable( ); };

private:
NotInheritable( ) { std::cout << "NotInheritable ::NotInheritabl e
()" << std::endl; };
};
class TryToInherit : NotInheritable
{
public:
TryToInherit() { std::cout << "TryToInherit:: TryToInherit()" <<
std::endl; };
};

int main()
{
NotInheritable ni = NotInheritable: :create();
return 0;
}
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[Axter]

Here's example code for an alternative method:

class FinalClass
{
public:
static FinalClass * Create_FinalCla ss();
private:
FinalClass(cons t FinalClass&);
FinalClass& operator=(const FinalClass&);
FinalClass(){}
};

FinalClass* FinalClass::Cre ate_FinalClass( )
{
return new FinalClass();
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
FinalClass *f = FinalClass::Cre ate_FinalClass( );
delete f;
//Or safer method, use auto pointer
std::auto_ptr<F inalClass> f_safe(FinalCla ss::Create_Fina lClass());

return 0;
}

[Bo Persson]

"KP" <[e-mail]> skrev i meddelandet
news:dv******** **@daniel-new.mch.sbs.de. ..

No, this is not ajay. I don't know if this question has been already
asked in this group. Do you know any solution of this?

The question is WHY do you want this?

In Java there is a reason to make the class final, beacuse it allows
the code to be optimized when we know that the virtual functions
cannot be overridden by a subclass.

In C++ you can avoid this by not making the functions virtual in the
first place.
If the object is just that inhereting from your class won't work, I
recommend solution #2 from the FAQ:
State in the comments/documentation that inhereting is not allowed -
"Me and my baseball bat will visit any violators!".
Bo Persson