Quick A: Yes.
Recently on SO:
Is the 'override' keyword just a check for a overriden virtual method?
That's indeed the idea. The point is that you are explicit about what you mean, so that an otherwise silent error can be diagnosed:
struct Base { virtual int foo() const; }; struct Derived : Base { virtual int foo() // whoops! { // ... } };The above code compiles, but is not what you may have meant (note the missing
const
). If you said instead,virtual int foo() override
, then you would get a compiler error that your function is not in fact overriding anything.
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