[LC++] Not everything inherited with inheritance??

[Carlo Wood]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:21:53PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> class tstTy: public string {
...
> main(int argc, char **argv) {
>   string str="grape";
>   tstTy tst="banana";
...
> tst_main.cpp: In function `int main(int, char **)':
> tst_main.cpp:16: conversion from `const char[7]' to non-scalar type
> `tstTy' requested
...
> Why is this so???

Constructors are not inherited/renamed.
You'd want something like this:

class tstTy: public string {
public:
  tstTy(char const* str) : string(str) { }
};

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Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>