Why can't a class have same name for a function and a data member?

Question

Why can\'t a c++ class have same name for a function and a data member?

class demo{
    public:
        int size();
    private:
        int size;   
};

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Answer 1

because if you use size in your class somewhere then the compiler does not know what to do. It can be either the int-data-member or it can be the function-pointer. So the compiler is not able to seperate both kind