Programming question of the week ;)

[Martin Naef]

Mikael Hansson wrote:
> int main()
> {
>    Cd *cd1 = new Cd("Music-barr", "Shelter");
> 
>    vector<Item*> vec;
>    vec.push_back(cd1);
> 
>    vec[0]->setArtist("Music-bar");
> }

I'm with Marc on that one. Generally, do the setArtist thing while you 
know what type you're dealing with. You can either do that by keeping 
separate lists for each subtype, or by having your editing functionality 
through a type-aware editing system.

Martin

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