Acces sub members from base

[cornel jew]

Hi all
I was coding using inheritance and need to know the following:
Can your base class acces additional members of your sub class, and if yes can you give some example.

Thanks for any help
cornel

[Matthew Phillips]

No. If you are referring to methods, there is a way to work around this. If you make your base class abstract, you can add those methods as abstract methods. You can then call those methods from the methods that you implement in the base class. You can implement those abstract methods in the sub class and instantiate it in the calling class.

[Monty Ireland]

A general rule of thumb.
A child can always reference a variable or method
of it's parent or grand-parent. Scope of variable or method not being considered at this time.
A parent can NOT reference a child's variables or methods. Casting of data types is not being considered at this time.
This is a beginners form.
We are all here to help and learn.

[cornel jew]

Hi
Thanks for the respond and answer now i am satisfied, cos i was somewhat puzzled.
Yours
Cornel