On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:26:31AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>+ /// Return parameter information for command cmdName.
> >>+ /// Not implemented here. Must be implemented in derived class.
> >>+ static CommandInfo const * findInfo(std::string const & cmdName);
> >
> >So make it pure virtual:
> >
> >vitual CommandInfo const * findInfo(std::string const & cmdName) = 0;
>
> I didn't do that because it needs, at least in the base classes, to be
> static, and I wanted to indicate here that it needed to be implemented
> as a static function. But of course "virtual static" is out, and so is
> "static blah =0". Thoughts?
class Base
{
public:
static Foo findInfo() { return doFindInfo(); }
protected:
virtual Foo doFindInfo() const = 0;
};
class Derived : public Base
{
protected:
virtual Foo doFindInfo() const { return Something; }
};
Andre'
