Calling private base methods

[Duncan Booth]

"7stud" <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Apr 12, 5:04 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> "7stud" <bbxx789_0... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > On Apr 12, 2:47 am, "Jorgen Bodde" <jorgen.maill... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Is it possible to call a private base method? I come from a C++
>> >> background, and I liked this construction as my base class has helper
>> >> methods so that I do not have to  duplicate code.
>>
>> > I'd like to see some C++ code that does that!
>>
>> Easy:
>>
>> #define private public
>> #include <someheader>
>> #undef private
>>
>> then call the private methods as much as you want.
> 
> lol.  I don't see any private methods being created there.
> 
> 

You should have looked in someheader:

class Whatever {
   private:
      void ohnoyoudont(int);
}

then back in the C file:


...
Whatever foo = new Whatever();
int ohyesido = 42;
foo.ohnoyoudont(ohyesido);
...


Really, it does work (probably). There are other ways to get at private 
members in C++ but this is the easiest.