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Inheritance is a fundamental concept in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). It allows a new class (called the derived class) to acquire the properties and behaviors of an existing class (called the ...

Embedded C developers shy away from C++ out of concern for performance. The class construct is one of their main concerns. My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++: Classes explored whether ...

.NET and Java developers are perplexed about the indiscreet way C++ discloses private class details. Pimpl (pointer-to-implementation) solves this problem by keeping secrets hidden from peepers. I ...

Here's my situation: I have a template for a virtual class, with one templated friend global function, and one pure virtual function which the global function tries to call through a pointer to the ...

From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...