Thread: Why can't this method take derived class?

Originally Posted by Elysia

Perhaps the problem is that "to" has a different meaning to you than me.
I was looking at the decorated name for the compiler. Since vector is a class, it is part of the mangled name the compiler/linker sees. Since my Visual Studio is borked, I can't do a test right now.
To me "vector OF type x" sounds like an array of type x. But vector is a class and is not a native array and thus isn't treated the same way by the compiler.

How the compiler mangles names is implementation-dependent. Conceptually, a vector is a container that holds objects. What is that vector<int> holding? It's a vector of integers.