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Ron House wrote:
> Perhaps it is easily disposed of by treating it like ambiguous function calls -
 > if there is no ambiguity, it gives you the parent, otherwise you can't use it.

The way it should work is that "inherited::name" means lookup "name" as if this
class did not define it. If there are multiple base classes, all of them are
searched. If the result is ambiguous (after applying the overloading rules if
it's a function) or missing, then you get a compilation error.

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