That would be a lot cleaner, but there are no such methods and any code that I produce can't rely on them, due to backwards-compatibility requirements. Sigh... Even if those methods werre available, my constructor may never get called as the the methods can be used as functions.

I'm seeing some issues with dragonchild's solution, but it certainly seems like the only workable prospect (and it's pretty cool, too).

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: Hmm... or I could create the mutators myself and add them to Foo's symbol table.

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In reply to (Ovid) Re(2): Setting Globals in a Base Class by Ovid
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