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Hour 18
Advanced Polymorphism
In the previous hours, you learned how to write virtual functions in derived classes. This is the fundamental building block of polymorphism: the capability to bind specific, derived class objects to base class pointers at runtime. Now you will learn
· What casting down is and why you might want to do it
· What abstract data types are
· What pure virtual functions are
Problems with Single Inheritance
In the previous chapters, I discussed treating derived objects polymorphically with their base classes. You saw that if the base class has a method Speak() that is overridden in the derived class, a pointer to a base object that is assigned to a derived object will do the right thing. Listing 18.1 illustrates this idea.

 
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