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Posted by bilal ahmad on April 11, 2001 at 10:39 AM

> It is generally said that one has to create a reference of the
> base class in order to refer to its objects. Like in case of
> RunTime polymorphism in order to execute the method of the base
> class one has to create the reference of the base class. Why is
> it so ??
could u please explain ur question bit more or u alking about inheritence.
thanks
bilal