Re: inheritance - method resolution

From:
Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:27:07 +0100
Message-ID:
<yN-dnStm9YR0bgDQnZ2dnUVZ8midnZ2d@giganews.com>
On 07/04/2011 18:25, Leigh Johnston wrote:

On 07/04/2011 18:12, Christopher wrote:

Where is the rule that explains why this will not compile? I've always
expected this to work, but it would appear that I haven't run into
this problem yet.

To resolve the problem, do I really need to override every single
method from the Base with the same name as the specific method I am
interested in overriding? I have a good 20 of them in production code.

A simple test case to reproduce what I am experiencing in more
complicated code:

class Base
{
public:
virtual void Foo()
{
}

void Foo(int x)
{

}
};

class Derived : public Base
{
public:
void Foo()
{
}
};

int main()
{

Derived * blah = new Derived();
blah->Foo(5);
delete blah;

return 0;
}


Use using declarations to solve this problem.

/Leigh


i.e.:

class Derived : public Base
{
public:
    using Base::Foo;
    void Foo()
    {
    }
};

/Leigh

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