Fluent interfaces and inheritance in C++

Question

I\'d like to build a base (abstract) class (let\'s call it type::base) with some common funcionality and a fluent interface, the problem I\'m facing is the retu

Answer 1

One solution would work like this:

return *static_cast(&my_type().with_foo().with_bar());

Using static_cast basically tells the compiler 'I know what I'm doing here'.