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From: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: renaming
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Date: 29 May 90 18:04:51 GMT
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Reply-To: budd@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Budd)
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When using inheritance, particularly multiple inheritance, it seems I often
miss the ability to do renaming, as in Eiffel.

Expanding on the syntax used to create pure virtual functions, it would be
nice to do something like the following:

class foo : public bar, pubic baz {
	...
	void gak(int i) = bar::geek;
	..
}

where geek is a method defined in bar which takes the same argument list as
gak.  As it stands, now I have to do something like the following

class foo : public bar, pubic baz {
	...
	void gak(int i) { bar::geek(i); }
	..
}

which is arguably no less readable, but does introduce the run-time
overhead of one additional function invocation.