Multiple Inheritance of Classes

[Chris R. Miller]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> superdan wrote:
>> Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
>>> Chris R. Miller wrote:
>>>> Understand, I'm NOT demanding ANYTHING.
>>>>
>>>> What is the current state of thought about Multiple Inheritance for
>>>> classes in D?  I'd like to have that feature, since it'd make some
>>>> stuff
>>>> I want to do a bit easier.  Is it not there because it's not worth the
>>>> effort to implement?  Because it's evil and needs to die (I don't know,
>>>> some people could possibly be adamantly anti-MI)?
>>> This is actually the reason, not the adamantly anti-MI part, just that MI
>>> is evil and that is well acknowledged almost everywhere. You will find
>>> good argumentation against it if you look, too.
> 
>> the man has kindly asked a sensible question. he deserves a good answer.
>> if u can't give one just don't reply. this is just ignorance.
> 
> I took it as a tongue-in-cheek question, and so was my answer. If Chris took
> offense, I am sorry. I am however happy that you provided a good technical
> response for once.

You response, Lars, was more or less what I was looking for.  It told me 
that it wasn't that Walter is absolutely scared of implementing it, but 
that there's a reason he doesn't.

The moment I saw a reply by superdan my first thought was "oh god, not 
another zillion-message-long study in the ambiguity possible in written 
English."  I was mighty tempted to not read superdan's messages, but 
through the "colorful" language there was a few bits of substance - 
mainly an explanation of why it's a difficult thing to implement.

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