Polymorphism question

[firedraco]

I have some operator <</>> overloads like this:

class player : public animate {
//...
    friend ostream& operator << (ostream&, const player&);
    friend istream& operator >> (istream&, player&);
//...
}

class animate {
//...
    friend ostream& operator << (ostream&, const animate&);
    friend istream& operator >> (istream&, animate&);
//...
}

Inside of friend istream& operator >> (istream& file, player& Player) I want to call the animate version to have in fill in the animate members. I tried:

file>>(static_cast <animate&> (Player));

But that did not actually modify Player like I need it to. Is there a way to do this or do I need to just define one for the player class and update it whenever I change anything in the animate class?

[jsmith]

That should have worked... what did it do?

[firedraco]

Nvm, it was a (another) dumb mistake I made...I put it in a position where it wasn't able to load all of the stuff from the file (because of the ordering), and it also prevented player from loading some of it's stuff...