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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Overloaded Function Ambiguity Resolution Problems
Message-ID: <171@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:51:13 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.204841.14690@world.std.com> <1991Mar8.105837.15493@tukki.jyu.fi> <1991Mar8.165325.22778@world.std.com> <1991Mar12.084906.28195@tukki.jyu.fi>
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In article <1991Mar12.084906.28195@tukki.jyu.fi> sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes:
>A very typical situation would be one in which a base class defines
>an overloaded function for some argument types and a derived class
>would like to add versions for some additional argument types.
>The hiding rule makes this impossible.

No it doesn't, it just makes it non-trivial, and introduces a slight window
for errors.  To accomplish the addition of a new overloaded member function
in a derived class you just redefine the entire set in the derived class,
all of them but the new one can be inline functions that simply call the
parent's function (no additional overhead).
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