T.A. Cargill on Multiple Inheritance

Fri Dec 21 04:19:08 UTC 2018

On 12/19/2018 5:40 PM, Manu wrote:
> It also wastes the single `alias this` slot that we get in a
> no-multiple-alias-this world.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the decision is arbitrary... can we move past this?

T.A. Cargill's famous paper about multiple inheritance:

"Controversy: The Case Against Multiple Inheritance in C++"

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/compsystems/1991/win_cargill.pdf