Re: inheritance - method resolution
On Apr 7, 10:29 am, Leigh Johnston <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
On 07/04/2011 18:26, red floyd wrote:
On Apr 7, 10:12 am, Christopher<cp...@austin.rr.com> 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.
No. Use "using" (see below).
class Base
{
public:
virtual void Foo()
{
}
void Foo(int x)
{
}
};
class Derived : public Base
{
public:
void Foo()
{
}
using Base::Foo(int);
That is ill-formed code; instead use:
using Base::Foo;
Oops. Brain fart. Thanks.
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