How to access parent class's data member from child class, when both parent and child have the same name for the dat member

Question

my scenario is as follows::

class Parent
{
public:
int x;
}

class Child:public Parent
{
int x; // Same name as Parent\'s \"x\".

void Func()
{
   this.x = Paren         


        

Answer 1

It's only a brief explaination of solutions provided by Luchian Grigore and Mr. Anubis, so if you are curious 'how this works', you should read it further.

C++ provides a so-called, "scope operator" (::), which is perfectly suited to your task.

More details are provided at this page. You can combine this operator with class name (Parent) to access parent's x variable.