Re: Polymorphism and inheritance

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:15:39 -0400
Message-ID:
<daniel_t-1FC4E6.07153908092008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>
Bart Friederichs <bf@tbwb.nl> wrote:

I created the following inheritance:

class Parent {
public:
    void foo(int i);
};

class Child : public Parent {
public:
    void foo(int i, int i);
};

The following code fragment does not work (it doesn't compile, g++
complains about 'no matching function call for Child::foo(int)':

...
Child c;
int k = 0;
c.foo(k);
...

I assumed that by inheriting the base class, the 'Child' class would
have two 'foo' methods, with different parameters. Apparently not.


It does, but the client code can't see the Parent::foo(int)
member-function because it is blinded by the child's foo(int, int)
function.

Adding

void foo(int i) { Parent::foo(i); }

to the Child class, fixes it, but is that how it should be done?


"using foo;" would also work.

Why is the Parent's foo() not polymorphised-inherited by Child?


Polymorphism isn't involved (note, no use of the word 'virtual' in the
code...

The child does inherit the foo(int) method, as witnessed by this code:

Child c;
Parent* p = &c;
p->foo(k);

it's just that the compiler stops looking after it finds a 'foo'
identifier in the first place it looks. "using foo;" tells it to keep
looking.

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