is Python fully object oriented ?

[Rainer Deyke]

"David C. Ullrich" <ullrich at math.okstate.edu> wrote in message
news:93nifo$qa7$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> A person could invent syntax to do exactly that one thing
> with an implicit self, maybe with an "inherited" keyword
> as in the one language I know with an implicit self (Object
> Pascal). How would a person do
>
> class C(A, B):
>   def __init__(self):
>     A.__init__(self)
>     B.__init__(self)
>
> with an implicit self?

The following is valid C++:

struct A {
  A() {} // empty constructor, no arguments
};

struct B {
  B() {} // same
};

struct C : A, B {
  C() : A(), B() {} // explictly calls both base constructors
};

Incidentially, all three of the above constructors would have been
automatically generated by the compiler were they not explictly declared.
Whether this is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing depends on your perspective.

A better example might be a non-constructor function:

struct A {
  void f() {}
};

struct B {
  void f() {}
};

struct C : A, B {
  void f() { A::f(); B::f(); }
};


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