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From: olehjalmar kristensen - Sun Microsystems - Trondheim Norway
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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>>>>> "RIE" == Robert I Eachus <rieachus@attbi.com> writes:

<snip>

    RIE> interfaces  and mix-ins.  But  type inheritance  cannot  be from  two
    RIE> concrete parents,  no matter what  the language--one parent has  to be
    RIE> abstract. So  anyone who condemns Ada  for not adding  what cannot be
    RIE> done needs to get a life.

What do you mean by "concrete parents"?

class a {
public:
  void foo();
};

class b {
public:
  void bar();
};

class c: public a, public b{
};

Works just fine, and there is nothing abstract about a and b. What's
the problem?

    RIE> --
    RIE>                                       Robert I. Eachus

    RIE> "As  far as  I'm  concerned,  war always  means  failure." --  Jacques
    RIE> Chirac, President of France

    RIE> "As far as France is concerned, you're right." -- Rush Limbaugh