Simple inheritance Q

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From: Eric Simon
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:34

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I have a base class, called Animal, and a derived class, called Cat.

In my main program I have:

1.    Animal *p;
2.    Cat a(args);
3.    p = &a;

Now, if I define
    class Cat:Animal{...

then I get the error in line 3:
  Can not convert Cat * to Animal *

But if I define
   class Cat:public Animal{...

everything is fine.

Can anyone tell me why?

Thanks,

Eric

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