sugar syntaxic to access parent class member

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Hi guys !!

In Inheritance, we deal with base classes and child classes. If we have to intermediately access baseclass members including variables and methods then we need to have some mechanism. This mechanism of accessing the base class members is provided in PS using a ugly syntax

class Baseclass 
{
    $foo = 'he'
}
class Subclass : Baseclass  {
    $foo = 'llo'
    
    [string] print_foo() {
       return [Baseclass]::new().foo + $this.foo
    } 
}

[subclass]::new().print_foo()

output: hello

The above code shows how to access the member variables of the base class from the derived class when the member variables are declared with the same name both in the base as well as derived class. i use the standard syntax _[Baseclass]::new().foo_

class Baseclass 
{
    $foo = 'he'
}
class Subclass : Baseclass  {
    $foo = 'llo'
    
    [string] print_foo() {
        return  $base.foo + $this.foo
    } 
}

[subclass]::new().print_foo()

output: hello

i refer to the $foo variable of the base class using “$base.foo” while the derived class variable $foo is accessed wilth $this qualifier

class Baseclass 
{
     [string] print_foo() {
        return 5
    }
}
class Subclass : Baseclass  {
    $my = 6
    
    [int] print_foo() {
        return  $this.my + $base.print_foo()
    } 
}

[subclass]::new().print_foo()

output: 11

another example with different method signature

class Baseclass 
{
     [string] print_foo($msg) {
        return  'shell'
    }
}
class Subclass : Baseclass  
{
    $foo = 'power'
    $msg = 'world'

    [string] print_foo() {
        return  $this.foo + $base.print_foo($this.msg)
    } 
}

[subclass]::new().print_foo()

output: powershell

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