Things to know about super (was: super() and multiple inheritance failure)

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Mon Sep 28 02:25:35 EDT 2009


Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:58:32 -0700 (PDT):
> ...
>You know that in an ideal world I would just
> throw
> away multiple inheritance, it is just not worth the complication.

I am a fan of multiple inheritance: it lets the compliler/language runtime
do stupid tasks (implementing delegations), I would otherwise have to do
explicitely. True, there may be complications - but often, they can be
avoided....



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