No overloading of virtual methods allowed within inheritance

[Nathan Sidwell]

Stuart Reynolds wrote:
> 
> There seems to be a problem overloading
> virtual method names in class hierarchies.
> I'm fairly sure this is a compiler problem -
> not an oversight/feature in the language
> specification (but I could be wrong).
You are wrong, it is how the language is meant to behave. Virtualness
is not the problem, name lookup is.


> class T : public S
> {

>     virtual void write(Output& out)

this will hide S::write (ostream &);
you need a using declaration to do what you want.


>     t->write(cout);   // Error
name lookup only finds T::Write (Output&) as the set of viable
functions within which to do overload resolution.

nathan

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