This is using the WIN32 API in C++ and is the Asteroids clone I am working on in my spare time as a learning project and I have a problem that I've narrowed down to being a default constructor issue ...

I have a base class whose destructor is pure virtual, so the class is abstract. I have a derived class (subtype) whose multi-argument constructor wants to call the base class's zero argument ...

Using member initializers offers more control over what constructors do, and helps eliminate unnecessary default initialization. In C++, a constructor is a special class member function that provides ...