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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:45:51 +0000 (UTC)
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Regarding number 3, I wish Ada had a good model of multiple
> inheritance.   I don't mean the somewhat haphazard model of
> C++, but rather something like the multiple inheritance of
> Eiffel.   When someone asks me, wrt multiple inheritance, "But
> why would you want to that?  it drives me a little crazy.
> 
> There are lots of good uses for multiple inheritance.  However,
> there are also lots of dangers in it.  Ada correctly comes down
> on the side of safety, but I do sometimes wish it were available.

It will have multiple inheritance of interfaces (a la Java) in
Ada2005 - is that enough?

Cheers

-- Martin