Inheritance by dominance - is it really bad?

Question

I\'m one of those people that has to get their code to compile with 0 warnings. Normally I respect the compiler and if it issues me a warning I take it as a sign that I should t

Answer 1

When performing virtual inheritance, it is a bad idea to not explicitly override every member in the most derived class. Else, you are asking for your code to die a horrible death when someone changes one of your base classes that inherits from the virtual base. There's nothing actively wrong with this, your program won't crash or anysuch, but it's a maintainability bad idea. If you want to call the Bar::foo version, then you should just delegate to it in Quux::foo.