When is using 'typeid' the best solution?

Question

There are many reasons not to use typeid. Other than for using members of type_info (implementation defined behavior), it is usually (always?) pos

Answer 1

You can use typeid to compare the actual types of two objects. Could be useful if you want to check equality of two objects, and first make sure they are of the exact same type (though I must say I haven't seen this done a lot, so there might be a good reason why this is not a good idea...).