Calling a virtual function on a reference

Question

In the following code, why does the last call of eat() on the reference c return \"An animal b is eating.\" ? From my

Answer 1

You cannot re-bind a reference once you have bound it, so you have to use pointers instead of references:

Animal *c = &a;
c->eat();

c = &b;
c->eat();

Now it will work exactly as you have wished it.