Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!uwmcsd1!uxc!tank!nucsrl!morrison From: morrison@eecs.nwu.edu (Vance Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Overload virtual functions? Message-ID: <8180018@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Sep 88 22:31:39 GMT References: <1215@tuhold> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 31 Hello, It seems your problem is that you want to overload a virtual function in the base class, but not define all the overloaded function in the derived class. A quick solution to your problem would be to define the overloaded function in the derived class explicitly. class base { .. public: virtual void f1(); virtual void f1(int); }; class derived: public base { .. public: void f1(); void f1(int i) { base::f1(int i); }; } Note that if this is not the behavior that you want, you should probably rethink why exactly you want to do this. Essentially overloading is ONLY for notational convience, if you are trying to use it for something else, you are probably trying to make it do too much. Vance Morrison Northwestern Univ.