Is anyone aware of a language feature or technique in C++ to prevent a child class from over riding a particular method in the parent class?
class Base {
public:
bool someGuaranteedResult() { return true; }
};
class Child : public Base {
public:
bool someGuaranteedResult() { return false; /* Haha I broke things! */ }
};
Even though it's not virtual, this is still allowed (at least in the Metrowerks compiler I'm using), all you get is a compile time warning about hiding non-virtual inherited function X.