On Tuesday 19 March 2002 09:13 am, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote: > Any recommendations on C++ books? Something that describes the gears and > pulleys as well as the function. I have Stroustroup from way back when.
I found Lippman's _C++_Primer_ more approachable than Stroustroup when first learning C++. > I was working with a base class last Friday that had no virtual destructor. > It wasn't a problem until I added some private data items to the derived > class. Then the compiler started complaining. I searched the web and > gained a rudimentary understanding of the problem and I found a solution to > the problem. Now I want to have a solid understanding of that problem and > solution. For anyone doing serious work in C++, Meyers's _Effective_C++_ and _More_Effective_C++_ are absolutely essential. The problem you mention here is Item 14 in the first book: Make destructors virtual in base classes. Really, you'll save yourself a lot of time if you buy and read (and reread) Meyers's books...especially if you're a class producer and not a class consumer. That is, you're implementing a C++ library and not simply stringing together other people's components. ---Tom _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
