Multiple Inheritance of Classes

[Chris R. Miller]

BLS wrote:
> I guess D will never support MI.
> Beside Mixins and Interfaces, you have the option to implement the (not
> very well known) twin pattern to simulate multiple inheritance.
> 
> Google for:
> Twin – A Design Pattern for Modeling Multiple Inheritance
> 
> Page 4-6 , for the impatient.
> 
> /I don't use this pattern 'cause it produces too much overhead, and it
> does't solve all the problems  /
> 
> Bjoern
> ps
> I do not belong to the "MI is eval" group. ... probabely more to the "MI
> in C++ is eval folks".
> I think  Eiffel shows that at lesat some MI related problems can be solved.

I don't think it's evil, but I acknowledge that a sufficiently advanced
idiot can abuse it to the point of making a code base un-salvageable.
Then again, there are a ton of useful tools that can be quite
entertaining in the hands of a sufficiently curious idiot ("what's this
nailgun do?")

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