Re: Inheritance not letting signature to come through.
Adrian Hawryluk wrote:
Hi, I was posed this question and I didn't know the answer. Anybody
here know why a member function of the same name but different signature
from that of a class it inherits from is not viable unless explicitly
made so using the 'using' keyword?
Here is an example:
1 class C1
2 {
3 public:
4 void M1(int i) {}
5 };
6
7
8 class C2: public C1
9 {
10 public:
11 // using C1::M1; //< When commented, g++ and VC++ emit error
12 void M1(int i, int j) {}
13 };
14
15 int main()
16 {
17 C2 c;
18 c.M1(14); //< Error emitted here
19 c.M1(1, 2);
20 return 0;
21 }
g++ emits:
18: error: no matching function for call to `C2::M1(int)'
12: note: candidates are: void C2::M1(int, int)
Because the standard says so in 10.2.2:
"A member name f in one sub-object B hides a member name f in a
sub-object A if A is a base class sub-object of B. Any declarations
that are so hidden are eliminated from consideration."
Someone around here probably knows the actual justification for that
being in the standard.
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