[Python-Dev] Problem with super() usage

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:10:11 -0400, Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:
>Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> In the world where cooperative multiple inheritance
>>> originated (C++), this would be a static error.
>>
>> I wasn't aware that C++ had anything resembling super().
>> Is it a recent addition to the language?
>>
>
>It is much more explicit, but you call the function from the
>superclass's namespace:
>
> [snip - something totally unlike super]
>
>C++ has no concept of MRO, so "super()" would be completely ambiguous.

I think this was Greg's point.  Talking about C++ and super() is
nonsensical.

Jean-Paul