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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:33:31 -0400
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Chad R. Meiners wrote:
>  > but he provided an example (which you consider inappropriate)
>  > that demonstrates that MI does not work in general.
> > It wasn't a straw man argument; it was a counter example. ;-)
>
> You cannot possibly mean what you are saying. You appear to be
> claiming that because multiple inheritance from all sets of bases
> is inappropriate, this is a counterexample to the notion that
> multiple inheritance from some set of bases is useful.

You misunderstand what I wrote

> If I were to paint everything in my house red, the result would
> be a hideous and awful mess. This does not prove that red is a
> useless color.

But painting everything in your house red is well defined it may not look
very good, but there is no confuse what the result of doing so would be.
However lets take mixing paints, mixing two oil based paints in well
defined; however I am not sure what the result of mixing oil and water based
paints together.

> I'm smelling "If we don't have it, you don't need it".

That's because you play the devils advocate too much ;-)

I welcome MI features to Ada as long as the rules about them are consistent
and understandable.