calling method of super class of super class

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From: Carsten Friedrich
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 00:52

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Hi,

is it possible to call a method of the super class of the super class?
E.g. (Pseudo java):

Class A { void f() { print "a";}}

Class B extends A { void f() {print "b"};}

Class C extends B { void f() {  A.f();}}

unfortunately Java does not allow me to do it like that (unless f is
static). Is there another way?

I can imagine some workarounds which all have some flaws:
 - reimplement the method from A , problem: the implementation of
   A.f() might not be known to me.

 - Have a class variable 'a' of type 'A' and call 'a.f()', which     
   wastes memory and does not always work ( A might be abstract)
 and so on ....

Is there a good solution?

Carsten

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