Is it okay to inherit implementation from STL containers, rather than delegate?

Question

I have a class that adapts std::vector to model a container of domain-specific objects. I want to expose most of the std::vector API to the user, so that they may use famili

Answer 1

You can combine private inheritance and the 'using' keyword to work around most of the problems mentioned above: Private inheritance is 'is-implemented-in-terms-of' and as it is private you cannot hold a pointer to the base class

#include 
#include 

class MyString : private std::string
{
public:
    MyString(std::string s) : std::string(s) {}
    using std::string::size;
    std::string fooMe(){ return std::string("Foo: ") + *this; }
};

int main()
{
    MyString s("Hi");
    std::cout << "MyString.size(): " << s.size() << std::endl;
    std::cout << "MyString.fooMe(): " << s.fooMe() << std::endl;
}