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- From: Clarence Chiang
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: copy ctor for abstract classes?
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 11:59:29 -0800
- Organization: Zippo
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- In article <4jk8kg$e9h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, ray@cse.ucsc.edu says...
- >
- >Should an abstract base class have a copy constructor?
- >
- >Ray
- >
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- Well, I don't think so. Since an abstract base class is a class that define an
- interface. It generally does not have any data member so usually there is no
- need for an abstract base class to have a copy ctor.
-
- Clarence Chiang
- Spider Island Software
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