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>>>>> Andrew Bell <abell@mindspring.com> writes:

> One problem, though, is that you may not care about the actual class
> of an object, but just whether it is derived from (or is) of a
> particular class, and RTTI doesn't help you there.

Why do you say that?  That's precisely what dynamic_cast is for.


...

  typedef class_where_method_is_introduced T;
  if (T* p = dynamic_cast<T*>(generic_ptr))
    {
      p->method ();
    }

...

Jason


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