Re: inheritance - method resolution

From:
red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<042684b2-b00b-4163-8767-5d088f09daf4@l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
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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