Thread: overide member function with calling base virtual function

Originally Posted by bithub

Well there are some instances where this-> is required (although they are rare). This usually comes into play when you have to differentiate between symbols that have the same name.

Code:

class Test
{
    void foo() {}
    void bar(int foo) { this->foo(); } // Without this-> you will get a compile error
};

Well yeah.... However I generally try to avoid doing silly things like this. It seems to me there is some semi-legitimate situation where you need this-> but it escapes me at the moment.