Subject: Re: multiple inheritance
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 08:31:53 CDT
At 10:47 PM +1000 10/11/01, Martin Sevior wrote:
>It is part of abiword's folklore that we do not allow multiple inheritance
>for portability reasons.
Correct.
>I suspect that MSFT is unlikely to improve their C++ compiler anytime soon
>so I guess it should remain forbidden.
>
You are have the wrong compiler on this one, Martin. VC++
has always supported MI - it's necessary to build MFC (Microsoft's
Foundation Classes). It's older versions of gcc that didn't like it
very much :(.
Leonard
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