C++ : implications of making a method virtual
Should be a newbie question... I have existing code in an existing class, A, that I want to extend in order to override an existing method, A::f(). So now I want to create class B to override f(), since I don't want to just change A::f() because other code depends on it. To do this, I need to change A::f() to a virtual method, I believe. My question is besides allowing a method to be dynamically invoked (to use B's implementation and not A's) are there any other implications to making a method virtual? Am I breaking some kind of good programming practice? Will this affect any other code trying