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2025-11-05


1991. Inheriting constructors vs default arguments

Section: _N4527_.12.9  [class.inhctor]     Status: CD4     Submitter: Hubert Tong     Date: 2014-08-27

[Adopted at the October, 2015 meeting as P0136R1.]

The creation of inheriting constructors does not, but should, consider the default arguments of constructors in the inheriting class. For example,

 struct A { A(int, int); }; struct B : A { using A::A; B(int, int, int = 0); // does not suppress creation of B(int, int) from A(int, int) };