This problem doesn’t come up very often. The solution I’m familiar with was designed by Doug McIlroy and appears in Bjarne Stroustrup’s books (presented in both Design & Evolution of C++ section 12.8 and The C++ Programming Language section 25.6). According to the discussion in Design & Evolution, there was a proposal to handle this specific case elegantly, but it was rejected because “such name clashes were unlikely to become common enough to warrant a separate language feature,” and “not likely to become everyday work for novices.”
Not only do you need to call Name()
through pointers to base classes, you need a way to say which Name()
you want when operating on the derived class. The solution adds some indirection:
class Interface1{
public:
virtual void Name() = 0;
};
class Interface2{
public:
virtual void Name() = 0;
};
class Interface1_helper : public Interface1{
public:
virtual void I1_Name() = 0;
void Name() override
{
I1_Name();
}
};
class Interface2_helper : public Interface2{
public:
virtual void I2_Name() = 0;
void Name() override
{
I2_Name();
}
};
class RealClass: public Interface1_helper, public Interface2_helper{
public:
void I1_Name() override
{
printf("Interface1 OK?\n");
}
void I2_Name() override
{
printf("Interface2 OK?\n");
}
};
int main()
{
RealClass rc;
Interface1* i1 = &rc;
Interface2* i2 = &rc;
i1->Name();
i2->Name();
rc.I1_Name();
rc.I2_Name();
}
Not pretty, but the decision was it’s not needed often.