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[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Lucas Goss wrote:
>> So the compiler does error with the first two attempts, but the third 
>> compiles and runs fine.
> 
> Yes, it is C++ and is perfectly legal C++. A more interesting question 
> is should it be legal? I posed the question in comp.lang.c++.moderated, 
> and got a couple of interesting answers.

Could you post the link to that discussion? (I don't think I can easily 
find it myself)

( Also, if you don't know already, C# adopts an invariant behavior: it 
disallows to change the protection in any way. Java has a covariant 
behavior, as mentioned by David. )

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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