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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:42:58 -0500, Wes Groleau  
<groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:

> That is the approach perl takes to multiple inheritance.  At least
> I think so--I haven't finished studying it.  What does C++ or Eiffel
> do when multiple inheritance creates two meanings for the same name?
>


Eiffel has very nice and elegant facilities for resolving ambiguities.  A  
lot of thought went into the situation of "diamond inheritance", where an  
ultimate base class is inherited via two distinct ancestors, and how to  
resolve it.  Eiffel is in many ways Ada's beautiful niece.  But Ada is a  
lot more portable.

- Ed