Re: accessing parent class method

From:
ArbolOne <ArbolOne@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 1 Jun 2008 06:44:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<9656c332-b319-417b-b6a1-18f480bb4fc3@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 1, 3:57 am, Erik Wikstr=F6m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:

On 2008-06-01 03:07, Victor Bazarov wrote:

ArbolOne wrote:

In my program I am using two classes foo1, the parent class, and foo2
the child class!
foo2 has overloaded inserter and extractor operator, but so does foo1!
How can I access foo1 inserter or extractor?


Post your code. It is easier when there is substance to the discussion.=

Meanwhile, here is the example:

   struct foo {
       void foobar();
   };

   struct bar : foo {
       void foobar();
   };

   int main() {
       bar b;
       b.foobar(); // calls bar::foobar
       b.foo::foobar(); // call foo::foobar
   }


I would call it bad style to explicitly call a parent's implemenetation
of a function (and bad design if you have to), unless it is done in the
child's implementation of the same function:

#include<iostream>

struct foo1 {
  virtual void foobar() {
    std::cout << "foo1\n";
  }

};

struct foo2 : public foo1 {
  virtual void foobar() {
    std::cout << "foo2\n";
    foo1::foobar(); // Call foo1's foobar()
  }

};

int main() {
  foo1* f = new foo1();
  f->foobar();
  delete f;
  f = new foo2();
  f->foobar();

}

--
Erik Wikstr=F6m

I got it now!
Thanks.

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