What is Object Eclipsing?

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This is a question my interviewer asked me. My Answer is -

if we assign an object of the derived class to the reference of the base class , the members of the derived class will eclipse or hide.

he didn't tell it's wrong or right. I want to confirm it.

I cannot find anything on this so it looks to me like it's a bogus term and either he didn't know what he was talking about or he meant something different, maybe EclipseLink (which would sound similar) as a persistance framework. — , Mar 03 '10 at 12:00
The correct response was "I'm afraid I haven't actually heard of that specific term before..." The brave response would be "a trick question..." — Martin Milan, Mar 03 '10 at 12:02
Maybe he was thinking of "shadowing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing — Joachim Sauer, Mar 03 '10 at 12:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '10 at 12:01

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There is no such concept "object eclipsing".

answered Mar 03 '10 at 12:01

flybywire

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Maybe the interviewer meant to say slicing?

That, or it was a trick question.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

Community

answered Mar 03 '10 at 12:12

Frank Shearar

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