Re: multiple inheritance

From:
Thomas Maeder <maeder@glue.ch>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
13 Dec 2006 13:49:31 -0500
Message-ID:
<m2slfjptng.fsf@glue.ch>
"Sushrut Sardeshmukh" <bestbrain@gmail.com> writes:

Can you please help me to understand why this code does not compile?
I expect foo() to be called from B as signature matches the call.
where as if i call ptr->foo(10) then C::foo(int i) should be called.
but it does not happen.

class A{};
class B
{
public:
  void foo()
  {
    cout<<"foo B"<<endl;
  }
};
 class C
  {
  public:
  void foo(int i)
  {
    cout<<"foo C "<<endl;
  }


The declaration of the member function name foo hides all inherited
member functions of that name, unless you say otherwise:

     using B::foo;

};
class D:public C, public B
{

};

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
  D *ptr = new D();
  ptr ->foo();

  return 0;
}

 error: request for member `foo' is ambiguous
 error: candidates are: void B::foo()
 error: void C::foo(int)


This error message is misleading.

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