[Python-Dev] Problem with super() usage

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 18 18:58:54 CEST 2006


On 7/18/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> 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?

I don't know about pure C++, but the C++ variant (or was it a
library?) that originated the cooperative multitasking ideas does have
a super call. And it is strongly typed as I explained.

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