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Thu, 2008-04-10 09:54 — Jeremy Frens (not verified)

Use the base class

paper and rock have to be declared as type Thing* in order for the problem/difference to show up in C++ (or Java). Overloading is resolved at compile time, so if you switch the compile-time types, you switch which function gets called.

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