A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference. — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth. — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
“Other than when dealing with exception-unsafe legacy code (which we'll discuss later in this Item), offering no exception safety guarantee should be an option… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
“That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do… — Scott Meyers Copy Share Image
