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I'm messing around with C++ by making a console game. I have a superclass called "WeaponType." Within this class is a static method that creates all of the types of weapons that I'll need. The child class "Weapon" will inherit from WeaponType. (I'm new to inheritance, so forgive my ignorance in advance.)

The way I see the code now, I'll have to declare a new instance of the WeaponType superclass every time I create an instance of the Weapon subclass. This is a problem because I don't want to create any more instances of the WeaponType superclass that are all initialized on the HEAP in the static method that creates them.

I'm either looking for a way to delete every new instance of the WeaponType superclass after doing what I need to with the object. (For example, if make another instance of WeaponType that specifies it's supposed to be the "melee" object and I have already created an instance called "melee", I want to be able to "migrate" the WeaponType to the original object and delete the new object).

The code I have is not complete, but you should be able to get the idea of what I want.

Here's most of the code for WeaponType: