Re: ambiguous access of 'Base' ??
Mario Semo wrote:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:epBHwBpmIHA.5820@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote:
As a workaround, you can do
return ::Base();
// or
return Derived1::Base();
I guess I prefer the symmetry of your first workaround.
Except that it doesn't work that well if Base is not in fact in
global namespace (and/or you are not sure which namespace it is in).
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Hello everybody,
thx for the explanation,
i used another workaround:
Base lTempBase;
return lTempBase;
i have to say that i do not understand why the compiler now knows
what i want (when the call to Base() is ambiguous and the
Derived1::Base and Derived2::Base are injected as Base
to the current scope, then createing an object with
Base lTempBase;
should also be ambiguous).
Interesting. Could be as simple as a bug in the compiler...
<doing some checking with Comeau online...>
class Base {};
class D1 : public Base {};
class D2 : public Base {};
class D : public D1, D2 {
public:
Base foo() {
return Base();
}
Base bar() {
Base b;
return b;
}
};
int main() {
D d;
Base b = d.foo();
Base bb = d.bar();
}
Comeau compiled this one without any problem.
V
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