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C++ Primer Plus
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C++ Primer Plus

by Stephen Prata
October 2011
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
35h 33m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Which Method?

In addition to introducing changes in class constructor rules, MI often requires other coding adjustments. Consider the problem of extending the Show() method to the SingingWaiter class. Because a SingingWaiter object has no new data members, you might think the class could just use the inherited methods. This brings up the first problem. Suppose you do omit a new version of Show() and try to use a SingingWaiter object to invoke an inherited Show() method:

SingingWaiter newhire("Elise Hawks", 2005, 6, soprano);newhire.Show();  // ambiguous

With single inheritance, failing to redefine Show() results in using the most recent ancestral definition. In this case, each direct ancestor has a Show() function, which makes this call ambiguous. ...

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