Assume that we have these classes:
class BaseClass;//im an abstract base class!
class Derived1 : public BaseClass;
class Derived2 : public BaseClass;
Both classes inherit from BaseClass, then we have one vector of pointers to BaseClass's
std::vector<BaseClass*> classes;
So now imagine that I want to copy the vector ACTUALLY COPYING THE ELEMENTS OF IT to classes_copy. So I don't want the pointers of the classes_copy to point to the same as classes. I want to create (using new to allocate, and I will free them later) a new version of everyone. We have one problem here: we don't know if that pointers of BaseClass points to the Derived1 or the Derived2 class. So, is this possible? If not, what to do? Any suggestions?
