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**Reincarnate** · 04-15-2013, 02:55 PM

So I could say "Animal* kitty = new Cat()" but what I am saying is that why couldn't I just do "Cat kitty = new Cat()" where Cat inherits Animal, and then when I call kitty.make_sound(), it calls the Animal's make_sound() function using the data attributes of the Cat() object?

04-15-2013, 02:55 PM	#50
Reincarnate x'); DROP TABLE FFR;-- Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 6,332	Re: Teach me CS stuff for interviews So I could say "Animal* kitty = new Cat()" but what I am saying is that why couldn't I just do "Cat kitty = new Cat()" where Cat inherits Animal, and then when I call kitty.make_sound(), it calls the Animal's make_sound() function using the data attributes of the Cat() object?