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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple interface inheritance workaround in Ada 95 / Ada 0x  to
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> But it's much simpler in Ada, since there is neither multiple
> inheritance nor interfaces. For the test to be potentially true,
> either I1 must be a subclass of I2, in which case the test
> succeeds immediately, or I2 is a subclass of I1, in which case
> we must actually examine item to see whether it inherits from
> an I2-derived class. If I1 and I2 are unrelated, the test will
> always be false, which is not true for C++ or Java.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No, it's always illegal (i.e. compile-time error).

- Bob