Suggestion: Walter Bright, why not to implement multiple inheritance in D?

[Justin C Calvarese]

Arlen Albert Keshabyan wrote:
> Recently, I've started the subject about multiple inheritance in D. I've got
> the answers. But those solutions are not enough suitable for my purposes. Then
> I thought, why not to implement the feature which is on demand by programmers
> in D? Multiple inheritance is needed indeed just only by seeing the attempts
> of programmers to emulate it in D. It means they need it. Multiple inheritance
> is really not that bad thing which is supposed to be got rid of. Just a linear
> multiple inheritance with possibility to get to the every level of its
> hierarchy is enough, I think. Moreover, I'll help to port many useful C++ code
> into D much easier than now.

This has been discussed to death in the past.

Feel free to read up on the past arguments. Here's a couple threads to 
get you started (I'm sure more threads are out there)...

16 Aug 2001: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/43.html
18 Mar 2004: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/25807.html


I think the bottom line is the multiple inheritance would added too much 
complexity for too little benefit. If the program has been designed in 
C++, it might need some re-design to bring it into D.

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jcc7