DIP3 - Remove inheritance protection

[Jason House]

if you don't plan on owning the DIP, why did you write it up? Any half-hearted proposal is doomed to failure.

Brad Roberts Wrote:

> For grins (and to see how well this process might work), I lifted a bugzilla
> issue (177) into a DIP:
> 
>    http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP3
> 
> It's a suggestion to remove a feature that several consider to be of little if
> any value.  Obviously it's something that can fall into the category of "Doctor,
> it hurts when I do this.  Well, don't do it."  But a feature you shouldn't use
> is a feature that shouldn't exist, no?
> 
> Also, in some ways it's similar to the suggestion to remove .5 as a valid float.
>  I really don't want the excuse 'it exists already' to be considered a valid
> reason to keep a feature.
> 
> Please feel free to update the DIP based on discussion in the NG.  I do NOT
> consider myself the owner of the DIP.
> 
> Later,
> Brad