Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pmafire!uudell!milano!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ziggy!screamer!tscs!tct!chip
From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Base class access: by name only?
Message-ID: <27497239.19F@tct.uucp>
Date: 20 Nov 90 18:13:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov19.012937.27283@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
Lines: 24

According to philip@pescadero.stanford.edu:
>In C++, it seems you have to use the base class name to get to a
>member redefined in the current class.

True, but you can use the preprocessor as a workaround:

   class Base {
       ...
   };

   #define DerivedSuper Base
   class Derived: public Base {
       ...
   };

   Derived::member()
   {
       return DerivedSuper::member() + 1;
   }

-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
    "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed
         by that evil Chip Salzenberg."   -- John F. Haugh II