Sending message to child from parent

Question

I have class Child inherited from class Parent. What I want is to send message to child, which has implementation of that message. So it\'s like calling pure virtual function fr

Answer 1

Inheritence does not remove the need for delegation. Those are mutually exclusive aspects of OOP. It sounds to me as though your are indeed trying to implement a delegator. The classes that it delegates to shouldn't be subclasses of it, but discrete classes. What you need here is composition, not inheritence.