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From: peter@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Peter Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Private base class
Summary: the original is correct and should work (and does under 2.0)!
Message-ID: <1371@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Jan 90 03:07:05 GMT
References: <1533@castle.ed.ac.uk> <4604@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Peter Schroeder)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <4604@helios.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes:
>In article <1533@castle.ed.ac.uk> sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (S. Manoharan) writes:
>#Yet another What's-wrong-with-my-code question:
># [code sample deleted]
>#Compiling this with CC (cfront version 1.2.1) gives the following
>#errors:
>#CC  test.c:
>#"test.c", line 18: error:  a is from private base class
>#"test.c", line 19: error:  f is from private base class
>#2 errors
>
>As it should, you have inherited the base class privately.  In other
>words, all members, public, protected, or private, are inaccessible
>to the derived class.  The fix is to declare derived like so:

[ "fix" deleted]

NO, NO, NO! Now the confusion is perfect! The example should work and does
work under 2.0!!!!! Apperently there is a bug in 1.2.1

I do this all over the place in my code. 

>#BS says "It is possible to declare some, not all, of the public
>#members of a base class public memberes of a derived class."
>#(page 196)   Where have I gone wrong then? Could someone help me?

You have not gone wrong. That is the correct quote and your interpretation is
correct.

>Hope that helps.

Sorry, no it doesn't!

>-  Patrick Beard, Macintosh Programmer                (beard@lbl.gov) -


Peter
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