C++ super

To explicitly call the superclass constructor from the subclass constructor, we use super() . It’s a special form of the super keyword.

And C++ doesn’t have a super or base keyword to designate “the base class” , like C# and Java do. One reason for this is that C++ supports multiple inheritance, which would make such a keyword ambiguous. But on the other hand, multiple inheritance is not used so often in C++.26 Ara 2017

super means, calling the last implementor of a method (not base method) base means, choosing which class is default base in multiple inheritance.

A derived Java class can call a constructor in its base class using the super keyword . In fact, a constructor in the derived class must call the super’s constructor unless default constructors are in place for both classes.