Subject: Re: multiple inheritance
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 07:47:35 CDT
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, F J Franklin wrote:
> I half-remember reading something in Stroustrup about classes and multiple
> inheritance. How portable is this? (Are there any rules against using
> multiple inheritance in AbiWord source?)
>
It is part of abiword's folklore that we do not allow multiple inheritance
for portability reasons.
I suspect that MSFT is unlikely to improve their C++ compiler anytime soon
so I guess it should remain forbidden.
Cheers
Martin
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