C++'s Function Overloading: Across Inheritance

Welcome to the Cow Corporation's series of videos about software engineering. The topic of this video is the combination of C++ function overloading and class inheritance. Prerequisite Knowledge: Table of Contents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFvHtpPPV_k) Desktop Apps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NO4APs4Io8) Desktop Apps→C++ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwIlsb9wqs) Desktop Apps→C++→Program Flow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl56sd4TpIY) Previous Video in this Series: Desktop Apps→C++→Program Flow→Function Overloading→Discrimination Criteria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN2LyJMrPW4) Example Source Code: Hiding versus polymorphism (https://wandbox.org/permlink/7ZTevOEWZfmeG0bI) Inheriting some overloaded implementations from a base class (https://wandbox.org/permlink/PW2X3UKTSp3LOhfB) Next Video in this Series: Desktop Apps→C++→Program Flow→Function-Pointer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq9jNydLzS8) Copyright 2026 Cow Corporation. All rights reserved. cowcorporation.com You are welcome to view this video. However, it is not intended to have any value other than as a set of notes for our own reference. This video comes with no guarantee of suitability for any particular purpose; use at your own risk. Music used with permission: "Take You On" by James Mercy (featuring PhiloSofie). Music provided by http://spot.fi/NCS 0:00 Intro 0:24 Video 5:02 Outro