Overloading member function among multiple base classes

Question

Basically I want to have multiple member functions with same name, but different signature, spread in multiple base classes.

Example:

#include <iostream>

struct A
{
    void print(int) { std::cout << "Got an int!" << std::endl; }
};

struct B
{
    void print(double) { std::cout << "Got a double!" << std::endl; }
};

struct C : A, B {};

int main()
{
    C c;
    c.print((int)0);

    return 0;
};

But I got this error on clang:

main.cpp:18:7: error: member 'print' found in multiple base classes of different types
    c.print((int)0);
      ^
main.cpp:5:10: note: member found by ambiguous name lookup
    void print(int) { std::cout << "Got an int!" << std::endl; }
         ^
main.cpp:10:10: note: member found by ambiguous name lookup
    void print(double) { std::cout << "Got a double!" << std::endl; }

Why is it ambiguous? Even with different number of arguments I get the same error.

Is there any workaround to get similar behavior?

Answer 1

Use a using declaration in the derived class - it will fix your issues. It makes both overloads visible and viable to participate in the resolution.

struct C : A, B {
    using A::print;
    using B::print;
};

To answer why this is ambiguous: it is actually not about visibility, but about the inability to participate in the overload resolution, due to not being defined in the same scope. The using declaration pulls those methods in the C scope, so both of them become valid overloading resolution options.

Thanks to @Pete Becker for participating in this answer and pretty much creating this paragraph.