Understanding double dispatch C++

Question

I try to understand how double dispatch works. I created an example where a monster and a warrior derived from the abstract class Creature could fight. The class Creature ha

Answer 1

If you want to do this you will need to use RTTI. You will need to check the type of the thing being passed in. In general this is not the best design pattern to be used if you can avoid it. If you want to interact two objects you generally want to use the standard interface of another. For instance you might say creature.attack(other_creature) and attack might query the defense of the other creature, and based on that and it's own stats post an hp update to the other_creature.