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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Base class access: by name only?
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Date: 19 Nov 90 01:29:37 GMT
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In some other object-oriented languages, it is possible to access the
superclass (base class in C++) without using its name. In C++, it seems
you have to use the base class name to get to a member redefined in the
current class. This strikes me as inconvenient; if I redesign my class
hierarchy, I have to remember to edit such occurences of base class names
as needed. Am I missing something, or is this a serious limitation?
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu