Assignment operator not available in derived class

Question

The assignment operator in base class does not seem to be available in derived class. Given this code:

#include 

class A{
    int value;
pub         


        

Answer 1

In order to make it work, you need to bring the operator= into B's scope:

class B : public A
{
public:
using A::operator=;
};

According to the standard [class.copy.assign/8]:

Because a copy/move assignment operator is implicitly declared for a class if not declared by the user, a base class copy/move assignment operator is always hidden by the corresponding assignment operator of a derived class (16.5.3).

So, because the B::operator= has been implicitly declared, it has hidden A::operator=, which requires you to bring it into scope if you want to use it.

Further quote from the standard [over.ass/1]

An assignment operator shall be implemented by a non-static member function with exactly one parameter. Because a copy assignment operator operator= is implicitly declared for a class if not declared by the user (15.8), a base class assignment operator is always hidden by the copy assignment operator of the derived class.

Emphasis is mine.