A robust, long lasting OO design relies on the premise that an existing class can be re-used in the future by means of derivation. Therefore, examining the actual type of an object with typeid() results in a code which is less flexible, since it cannot handle derived objects:
void Registry::Register (const Window& wind) //has to receive a Window object exclusively{if (typeid(wind) == typeid(Window)) //inflexible; objects derived from Window will fail this test{Store ( wind.GetHandle() );} else //object derived from Window was received; not handled { coutThe use of dynamic_cast rather than typeid() is a better choice - it will enable the Registry::Register() member function to cope with a Window object as well as any object derived from it:
void Registry::Register (const Window& wind) //has to receive a Window object exclusively{Window w=dynamic_cast> (wind) //will succeed even with derived objects{Store ( w.GetHandle() ); //it is guaranteed that Window::GetHandle() is called }} 
