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From: "Brian T. Hill" <bhil@strata3d.com>
Subject: Re: inherited:: keyword
Date: 1995/04/24
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xqp@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martin Jenkins") wrote:

>> I've come across the following syntax in some mac code,
>> both metroworks and mac app:

>> cName::cName()
>> {
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> inherited::f();
>> }

>> cName is a derived class,
>> "inherited is not a class name anywhere,
>> (I searched the entire OS),
>> and f is a function of the base class.

>> I assume that this syntax will find the function f
>> somewhere in the class hierarchy, howver I cannot find any
>> reference to this syntax anywhere.

>> Is this something new or some mac extension, or what ?

>Look at p205 of the 2nd edition of Stroustrup. In the index as 
>"inherited::".

I've come across this too.  I've read Stroustrup's suggestion and I 
understand what it means when I see it.  But when did it become a part 
of the language per se?  Stroustrup suggests using a typedef to define 
the keyword, yet Metrowerks seems to use it without the typedef.

Can we expect to see this in other C++ implementations?  I personally 
prefer the compiler to define the keyword.  If the programmer defines 
it, there can be no guarantee that it actually refers to the superclass.
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