[osg-submissions] osg::Object::clone

[Daniel Trstenjak]

Hi Stephan,

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:21:06PM +0200, Stephan Maximilian Huber wrote:
> To my knowledge, the code will fail because the c++compiler will call 
> osg::Object::clone and not osg::Transform::clone because the function 
> signatures differ (they return different types of objects).

The return value isn't part of the signature of a method. You can't
overload a method by only changing the return value.


Greetings,
Daniel

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