12.14 Calling Base Class Methods

In the section on constructors you saw that it is possible to call an ancestor class's procedure within the derived class's overridden procedure. To do this, all you need to do is to invoke the procedure using the call (type classname [esi]).procedureName( parameters );. On occasion you may want to do this same operation with a class's methods as well as its procedures (that is, have an overridden method call the corresponding base class method in order to do some computation you'd rather not repeat in the derived class's method). Unfortunately, HLA does not let you directly call methods as it does procedures. You will need to use an indirect mechanism to achieve this; specifically, you will have to call the method ...

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