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From: horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Class scope and virtual functions
Message-ID: <1989Nov11.033053.4148@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 89 03:30:53 GMT
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Several people asked for the possibility of calling

	super->f()

to invoke the method f() in the immediate superclass. I don't see why
that would be such a wonderful feature. YOU built the inheritance tree,
so you know the name of the superclass and can invoke it with

	superclassname::f()

(And, in the case of multiple inheritance, you'd have to specify anyway
which superclass you wanted to defer to.) 

The only time when you don't know the name of the superclass is when the
code of your function is generated by a macro. Did anyone ever run into
a situation in which such a macro might be useful?