Is using “base” bad practice even though it might be good for readability?

Question

I know this is a subjective question, but I\'m always curious about best-practices in coding style. ReSharper 4.5 is giving me a warning for the keyword \"base\" before bas

Answer 1

I think generally you should use base only when overriding previous functionality.

Some languages (C# does not) also provide this functionality by calling the function by it's base class name explicitly like this: Foo.common() (called from somewhere in Bar, of course).

This would allow you to skip upwards in the chain, or pick from multiple implementations -- in the case of multiple-inheritance.

Regardless, I feel base should be used only when needed to explicitly call your parent's functionality because you are or have overridden that functionality in this class.