Objects of the same name in base and derived class not getting flagged as an error

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Published on 2010-05-05T00:54:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 0:58 UTC
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class Base
{
public:
 type1 m_Pants;
};

class Derived : Base
{
public:
 type2 m_Pants
};

This essentially didn't get flagged as an error, but was creating all kinds of clobbering and issues throughout a project.

Does anyone know of a technicality that wouldn't flag this?

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