This is veeery old news. Here’s the wiki – overall it’s a good idea (I was surprised back then to see Microsoft doing a wiki). Still it’s not well indexed by Google and Google Groups remains the best for programming-related searches.

Speaking of old stuff – this C++ FAQ written by The Inventor Himself is simply excellent! Did you know about this:

class D : public B {public:    using B::f;// make every f from B available

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