That’s indeed the idea. The point is that you are explicit about what you mean, so that an otherwise silent error can be diagnosed:
struct Base
{
virtual int foo() const;
};
struct Derived : Base
{
virtual int foo() // whoops!
{
// ...
}
};
The above code compiles, but is not what you may have meant (note the missing const
). If you said instead, virtual int foo() override
, then you would get a compiler error that your function is not in fact overriding anything.