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Static
binding guarantees that we will never associate a
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member
function of a derived class with an object of a
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direct
or indirect base class.
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If
that were to happen, the member function would
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attempt
to access data members that do not exist in the
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object.
That is because a base class object does not have
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an
"is a" relationship with a derived class object.
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Of
course, we can go the other way around. That is, we
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can
associate a member function of a direct or indirect
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base
class with an object of a derived class as long as that
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member
function is accessible (i.e., public).
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That
is what inheritance is all about and it works because
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we
have an "is a" relationship.
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