RE: [Algorithms] C++ inherited constructors

[Aaron D. <ri...@ho...>]

Why not have your base class constructor call a virtual private member
function and overload that function in the derived class?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gda...@li...
> [mailto:gda...@li...]On Behalf Of Matt
> Adams
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:19 PM
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] C++ inherited constructors
>
>
>
> I need this for aesthetic reasons :)
> I've got an abstract CThread class. If a want to create a new thread, I
> build my process class and inherit CThread, which creates a new thread by
> construction.
> Now I want my main-threadloop-class to inherit CThread, too, to
> provide all
> the thread functionality to my main thread. But that thread already exists
>  created by compiler ), and shouldn't be created again by CThread.
> Of course I can put CThread () and ~CThread () in functions like Create()
> and Destroy() and leave the constructor / destructor empty. But it'd be
> nicer if it could be done in another way...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Favnir
> To: gda...@li...
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] C++ inherited constructors
>
> The only way you can do this is to define a (preferably) protected
> do-nothing constructor for the base class, and inherit it in the subclass
> constructor.
>
> But, why in the world would you need to do this, in the first place?
>
> Are,
> F
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Adams
> To: gda...@li...
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 12:22 PM
> Subject: [Algorithms] C++ inherited constructors
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I got a question about the C++ class hierarchy.
>
> class a
> {
>     a () {...}; // constr a
> };
>
> class b : a
> {
>     b () {...}; // constr b
> };
>
> b instance;
>
> When creating an instance of b, constructors for both class a and class b
> are called.
> Is there a way to suppress the automatic calling of constructor a ?
> Or something like 'overloading' the old constructor by a new one ?
> I couldn't find anything like that in the compiler docs.
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Matt
>
>
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