Re: why private virtual function?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:48:55 -0400
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Sorry I did not compile it before and just take things for granted.
After compiling, strange compile errors in MSVC 2008.

1>d:\visual studio 2008\projects\cpp\cpp\main2.cpp(14) : error C2385:
ambiguous access of 'foo'
1> could be the 'foo' in base 'Base'
1> or could be the 'foo' in base 'Mixin'

in this line,

    void bar() { foo(); } // Uh oh.

I do not know why there is ambiguity, since the foo in Base is
private


You asked this question before:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.language/browse_frm/thread/5423ac995099dfbb/af7756aaf2279d0d

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