Creating a cloned copy of subclass from baseclass

Question

Consider this scenario:

public class Base
{
    public int i;
}

public class Sub : Base
{
    public void foo() { /* do stuff */}
}

And th

Answer 1

Clone is a bad practice and your question is the reason for that (subclass cloning). In general, you should just use copy cotrs instead and have the subclass accept a parent as a parameter.

public Base(){}

public Base(Base pSource){}

public Sub(){}

public Sub(Base pSource, other parameters...){}

public Sub(Sub pSource){}