Objective-C++ and overloading and inheritance of static member functions

FROM : Andrew White
DATE : Fri Apr 22 03:58:18 2005

A.h:

class A
{
   static void
       f (const char * src);
   static void
       f (int);
}


B.h:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

class B
{
   using A::f;
   static void
       f (NSString * src)
       {
           f ([src UTF8String]);
       }

   ...
}


The above to me seems comparable to:
   http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#overloadderived
The only difference is the use of static members.  However, when I attempt
to use B::f, I am told that it doesn't exist and the options are the two
functions in A::f.

eg

B.mm

void
B::applyF (NSString * src)
{
   f (src);
}

->

error: no matching function call to A::f (NSString *).
...


Why is it only trying to find A::f when B::f is also in scope?  What have I
missed?

I can work around it by explicitly scoping the call to B::f (NSString *),
but that sort-of defeats the point of overloading.

--
Andrew White

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