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From: house@usq.edu.au (Ron House)
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Subject: Suggestion: parent
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I don't know if this has been suggested, but a neat way to refer to the 
parent of a class would be very useful. Thus, if C inherits from B, 
"parent" used inside C, would be B. This would be handy with template 
arguments, and when classes include code from macros or templates that 
want to mention the ancestor. I ran into the problem when designing a 
system to automatically generate a collection of classes for writing 
html from special short descriptions of html elements. My canned code 
got inserted into various classes and I needed to call ancestor methods. 
I found I had to keep track of the ancestor class names with complicated 
macros.

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Ron House     house@usq.edu.au
               http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/house

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