Calling base class method in derived class without specifying base class name

Question

When overriding a C++ virtual method, is there a way to invoke the base class method without specifying the exact base class name, in a similar way that we can do it in C# with the "base" keyword? I am aware that this could be in conflict with multiple inheritance, but I wonder if more modern versions of C++ have introduced such a possibility. What I want to do is something like this:

class A
{
  public:
  virtual void paint() {
    // draw something common to all subclasses
  }
};

class B : public A
{
  public:
  virtual void paint() override {
    BASE::paint();
    // draw something specific to class B
  }
};

I know that in B::paint() we can call A::paint(), I just want to know if there is a more "generic" way to call the base method without referring explicitly to class A. Thank you in advance. Andrea

Answer 1

No, there is no fancy keyword to access to the base class. As some comments already mentioned, some proposals have been rejected by the standard committee.

Personally, in some contexts, I opt for a typedef/using directive; especially when my hierarchy has templated classes.

For instance:

template <typename T>
class A {};

template <typename U, typename T>
class B : public A<T> {
 private:
  using Base = A<T>;

 public:
  void foo() {
    // Base::foo();
  }
};