D pointers #2

[Thiago Macieira]

Maks Orlovich wrote:
>It outputs A, B, C. If virtuals didn't work, it would output A, A, A.
>In fact, virtuals very much work inside the constructor --- except that
> when you're in a constructor of a superclass, your class -is- the
> superclass.

Right. But the point is: people expect it to output C, C, C, because it's 
the virtual function "virt" that is called. I remember a certain job 
interview asking exactly that, recently :-)

From the technical point of view, a call to a virtual function from inside 
the constructor or destructor is no different than a call to a 
non-virtual one: it doesn't go through the virtual table.

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