Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 07:42:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Virtual functions
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> If I have the following two classes:
> 
> class parent
> {
> public:
>         virtual int foo(void)
>         {
>                 cprintf("Parent foo");
>         }
> };
> 
> class child : public parent
> {
> public:
>         int foo(void)
>         {
>                 cprintf("Child foo");
>         }
> };
> 
> Is there some way I can call the parent::foo() from within child::foo()? Or
> is this just impossible?

That is exacly what you did in the message above, just use:
parent::foot();
and the parent foo functions will be called.

> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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