Thread: Inheritence ambiguity

I have a base class A, which is publicly inherited by both B and C. D is a class that public inherits B and C. There is some ambiguity when I make a certain function call.

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class A
{
private:
    int Aint;
public:
    A():Aint(1) {}
    ~A() {}
    virtual int GetAint(void) {cout << "A::GetAint()" << endl; return Aint; }
};

class B : public A
{
private:
    int Bint;
public:
    B():Bint(2) {}
    ~B() {}
    virtual int GetBint(void) {return Bint; }
    virtual int GetAint(void) {cout << "B::GetAint()" << endl; return A::GetAint(); }
};

class C : public A
{
private:
    int Cint;
public:
    C():Cint(3) {}
    ~C() {}
    virtual int GetCint(void) {return Cint; }
    virtual int GetAint(void) {cout << "C::GetAint()" << endl; return A::GetAint(); }
};

class D : public B, public C
{
private:
    int Dint;
public:
    D():Dint(4) {}
    ~D() {}
    virtual int GetDint(void) {return Dint; }
};

int main(void)
{
    D d;
    int temp;

    temp=d.GetAint();
    cout << temp << endl;

    return 0;
}

The call 'd.GetAint()' is ambiguous, and rightly so, because that was the plan all along. My question is, what is the work around here? Can I specify in main() to call a particular inherited function, something like:

Code:

temp=d.C:GetAint();

I know that's not correct but is this possible?

I am also aware that I could just place a function in D and call whichever one I wanted.

Not sure if its really correct, but this does seem to work...

Code:

temp=d.B::GetAint();

When I change to that, my output is like this:

B::GetAint()
A::GetAint()
1

Ha! I didn't think it was so easy, so I didn't even try that. Thanks. Now for the crunch question: find me a real life application of classes that would result in this kind of ambiguity.

What about this:

Code:

temp=d.B.A::GetAint();
    cout << temp << endl;

Using the same classes as before. Seeing as A::GetAint() is publicly inherited throughout, it should be possible to access it from an instance of D. What is the syntax for this?