Multiple Interface Inheritance (was Re: JGNAT and ObjectAda and ...)

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

Brian Rogoff wrote:
> ...
> So, are there any ARG proposals for more direct support for Java-style
> interfaces? I seem to remember some discussion of this, and as long as
> we're letting Java drive Ada development ;-)

Yes.  

I think of it more as recognizing that full multiple inheritance
never achieved "traction" in the programming language marketplace,
but that multiple inheritance of interfaces has shown itself to
have a good cost/benefit ratio.

In any case, if you want to see the proposal, go to:

  http://www.ada-auth.org/~acats/ais.html

and poke around for a recent AI on multiple inheritance
of "abstract interface" types.  Unfortunately, I don't
know the number at the moment.  The AI-SUMMARY.DOC file 
can be used to find out.  (It is really a text file, despite
the ".DOC" extension.)

> 
> -- Brian

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