Distinct "static" parent property contents for children

[Timoses]

On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 17:46:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 17:38:27 UTC, Timoses wrote:
>> Are there better options/ways of achieving this?
>
> What are you actually trying to achieve? What are you using 
> these variables for?

Well, I have the following outline:

class File
{
     Section[] sections;
}
abstract class Section
{
     enum Part { Header, Content, Footer};
     SectionEntry[Part] entries;
}
class SectionEntry
{
     bool isComment;
     string[] lines;
}

And then I'd like to have somthing like predefined sections, e.g.:

class SectionTypeA : Section
{
.... // provide "static" information that is
      // always the same for this type of seciton
   // however, the Content part may vary
}


Are there more elegant ways of achieving this?


> My first thought is you should abandon the variable approach 
> and just use an abstract function that returns the value for 
> each child via overriding. It won't be static, but it also 
> won't take any per-instance memory.

Sounds like a good approach. I'll try this out for sure.