Multiple Inheritance: Ambiguity

• What if the person and employee classes both have char *name()?

  • If class Jeremy has its own function name(), it overrides name() of both of its base classes. The base class functions can still be called explicitly using the usual syntax (person::name() and employee::name())
  • If Jeremy does not have its own name(), all calls to name() must be disambiguated using ::

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