Re: Microsoft Specific C++ keyword "__super"

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:09:28PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:14:53PM +0100, Richard E Collins wrote:
> > 
> > I'll have a think, I may resort to a macro plan I had before I found the
> > '__super' keyword. I do think its an omission of the C++ spec.
> 
> You may or may not know that it was proposed and rejected.  They were
> reluctant to use up any more keywords, even from the implementation
> namespace, when the same result can be had with a little more coding:
> 
>     struct Derived1
>       : public Some_Complicated_Base_Probably_Involving_Templates
>     {
>         typedef Some_Complicated_Base_Probably_Involving_Templates parent;
>         ....
>     };

This works for single inheritance; there does not seem to be a way to
duplicate the functionality of __super in the MI case.