Re: "trivial" problem with template method pattern

From:
red floyd <no.spam@here.dude>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:11:45 GMT
Message-ID:
<5P1Wi.61537$Um6.38209@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net>
rogo wrote:

Ok, when I began to implement it, I thought it should be
straightforward and easy. I'm not sure whats wrong with the following
code:

class A
{
   public:
        A() {}
        int get()
        {
            int a;
            get(a);
            return a;
        }
   protected:
        virtual void get(int&) = 0;
};

class B : public A
{
    public:
        B(int a) : b(a) {}

           using A::get();

   private:
        void get(int& a)
        {
            a = b;
        }
        int b;
};

int main() {
    B b(1);
    b.get();// thats a problem, and I dont know why
}

For some reason I dont understand yet the compiler can't "find" the
inherited methode "int get()". I use g++ version 4.1.2 20070925.


Behavior is correct. The declaration of B::get(int&) hides all other
instances of get() for B. You have two choices: put a using declaration
in all your child classes (see above), or rename get(int&). The second
is a better solution, especially since get(int&) is private.

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