Things that cannot be inherited

Question

I've been asked to name three things that can not be inherited from the base class.

Apart from private member functions, what else can I add?

I thought about friend functions but since they don't actually belong to the class, they have nothing to do with inheritance.

Answer 1

A few obvious ones you usually care about are constructors, assignment operators and destructors.

In all these cases, a new version specific to the derived class is either provided by the user, or else synthesized by the compiler (though C++11 also adds some capabilities for things like simply deleting one that you don't want available).

I should probably add that "can not be inherited" isn't necessarily exactly correct. For example, C++11 adds inheriting constructors (but they weren't in C++98/03, which is what most courses still deal with). Even in C++11, you don't inherit them by default.