No need to know your base class name. __super !

A question I love asking interviewees is: If you could fix one weakness of C++, what would it be ?
Pretty interesting to see how deeply a candidate thought about the language and its implementation.
My answer if I were asked the question is: I'd add a baseclass keyword. It would allow calling a base class member without having to explicitely specify its name. That way, one can more easily inject a small class in a hierarchy chain.
There's a trick to workaround that though: #define or typedef the base class. That way, you only have to change the #define/typedef when you inject a class.

Today, thanks to Raymond Chen, I learned that the Microsofties shared the same dream. And they made it come true: __super !

Just one more question Raymond: Why didn't you tell me 10 years ago !