How do you prevent object slicing in C++?

Question

How do you prevent object slicing in C++ without using pointers to objects? Please let me know ;) thanks in advance

Answer 1

A fellow dutchman, hi :)

You can't, you have to use pointers to use polymorphism.
Don't forget to mark your destructor as virtual though.

Read up about unique_ptr and shared_ptr if you're worried about deletion.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/unique_ptr
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr

Answer 2

Thanks Dennis!