On Wednesday 29 May 2024 07:38:14 GMT-3 Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> now I had to close the COM port upon destruction. I
> wanted to put the 'Close' operation inside the base class rather than
> have to put it in all the derived classes (e.g. RS232_Microcontroller,
> RS232_Win32, RS232_Boost, etc.

In the spirit of polymorphism, what you needed was a ClosingRS232 class that
is the base of all those above and does call Close().

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