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Subject: Re: Ada requires too much typing!
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Hi Luis,

Am 01.06.2010, 23:30 Uhr, schrieb Luis Espinal <Luis_member@newsguy.com>:

> Some people still think this is still a better trade-off over C++ styled
> multiple inheritance because of the dreaded "diamond" problem.

which is easily solved by marking classes virtual. One should just make a  
habit of defining classes like this:

virtual Base
   {
   public:
     virtual ~Base ()
       {
       …
       }
   }

And suddenly all your virtual inheritance needs work flawlessly. There are  
just too many C++ programmers out there who do not know that.

> That's a lot of manual shamanism that should be better dealt with  
> syntactically.

As I mentioned before: true Shamans (yes they still exists, mostly  
Siberia) work a lot with poisonousness substances. If they make a mistake  
then either they or there customers end up dead. Comparing computer  
science with shamans is an insult to the professional work of shamans.

Martin
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