Thread: static virtual functions

  1. 10-08-2005 #1
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    static virtual functions

    why virtual functions can't be static?
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    Normative Changes to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 in Technical Corrigendum 1

    Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++
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    Because static functions aren't inherited. They're associated with classes, not objects. virtual is associated with calling member functions from pointers to objects.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dante Shamest
    Because static functions aren't inherited.
    Is that the only reason
    "Service of the poor and destitutes is the service of the God"

    Normative Changes to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 in Technical Corrigendum 1

    Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++
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