On Thursday 23 March 2006 03:02, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:57 samaye tvayaa likhitam: > > I'm not sure if this is right. Functions can always be overloaded. > > He did not speak of functions being overloaded. He spoke of functions being > over-*ridden*. Sorry I must have read wrong. Nevertheless even if you prefer to say override you can still override a function without using virtual. Just adjust the type of the pointer to the class of which you want to execute the member function. Ben > > > Further I believe that once a function is declared virtual it always > > stays that way. Even if in subsequently derived classes it is not > > explicitly declared virtual any longer. > > Verified this using a grandchild class. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html