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question about class member inheritance

pabloist (132)
Say I have something like this:

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class Base
{
    public:
    Base()
    { numObj++; }
    ~Base()
    { numObj--; }
    static int numObj;
};

int Base::numObj=0;

class Derived: public Base
{
    public:
    Derived()
    { numObj++; }
    ~Derived()
    { numObj--; }
    static int numObj;
};

int Derived::numObj=0;


Is this a bad idea? Should I just name the derived counter separately? I'm guessing that numObj would end up shadowing each other or something like that - would writing Derived::numObj++ work within the constructor?
closed account (S6k9GNh0)
I don't see why it wouldn't be a bad idea right off hand, other than a matter of usefulness. As for your 3rd question, why don't you try it out?
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