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		Findecanor on March 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Overview: What are Cpp2 and cppfront? How do I get... Yes, you can have a private virtual member function, and it can be overridden in a child class (unless declared final), apparently. I too thought that sounded insane, so I just looked it up. I've been programming C++ for twenty five years and the thought of wanting to do this have never ever occurred to me...

usefulcat on April 1, 2024 | [–]

It could make sense if you have a method that you want derived classes to be able to override but not to be able to call directly.

This is, admittedly, a pretty niche case but certainly not inconceivable.

zetafunction on April 1, 2024 | | [–]

Except the derived class can simply change the visibility of the override, so...

AnimalMuppet on April 1, 2024 | [–]

TIL.

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