23. Other Topics

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

—William Shakespeare

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

—Sir Isaac Newton

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To use const_cast to temporarily treat a const object as a non-const object.

• To use namespaces.

• To use operator keywords.

• To use mutable members in const objects.

• To use class-member pointer operators .* and ->*.

• To use multiple inheritance.

• The role of virtual base classes in multiple inheritance.

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