Text book extract:
Anytime we redefine an overloaded function name from the base class, all the other versions are automatically hidden in the derived class.
I get this. But, what is the reasoning behind this. Or is it like that's how they designed C++?
It's to avoid accidentally providing access to/calling base class methods you don't intend to call. If you explicitly want to ALSO provide the base class methods the language provides that syntax with using Base::function_name;. Alternately if the functions are orthogonal in functionality, don't name them the same thing.
