[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55741] build with '-Woverloaded-virtual' emits many warnings indicating problems

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #55741 (project octave):

After thinking about this some more, I still agree that we should fix these to
avoid possible confusion.  But I don't think it's anything that needs to be
fixed immediately.  This warning is saying that a base class virtual function
is hidden by another function of the same name but different signature in the
derived class.  If these derived classes needed the base class function, we
would see an error about it not being available.  So it may be OK that they
are hidden.  But the overloaded names may also cause some future confusion. 
It depends on the details for each case.  So we shouldn't just go and add
public "using" declarations (or similar) in each of these derived classes
without first thinking about whether it is intentional that the base class
functions are hidden or whether there should be some other solution.  Maybe
some of them don't need to be virtual?

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