Question

Is it possible to “reuse” a parent method in a child method and add functionality, just like with the super operator in Java?

parent.method(int a){
  a++;
}

child.method(int a /*would be nice w/out*/){
  printf("%d",a);
}

I know that this is probably quite a basic question, sorry about that.

I know I can just copy/paste the method to the child class and add the functionality there, by overloading; I’m looking for a more convenient way though.

Answer 1

You can use __super to do this, but it is a Microsoft extension.

void CChild::function( int nParam )
{
    __super::function( nParam );
}

Alternatively you can explicitly call the base implementation from the derived class:

void CChild::function( int nParam )
{
    CParent::function( nParam );
}