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Article #574Multiple inheritance oversight?
From: Peter GOLDE
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 03:23
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 03:23
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p. 198 of the ARM appears to have overlooked a case involving multiple inheritance of the same class twice. It states: "A class may not be specified as a direct base class of a derived class more than once but it may be an indirect base class more than once". Thus prohibiting: B B \ / A But allowing: B B \ / X Y \ / A It's unclear from the wording whether an object can be an indirect base class once and a direct base class once, i.e., B / B Y \ / A cfront 2.0 disallows this. This is probably the right behavior, since none of the immediate base B's members can be accessed, even with the scope operator. However, the wording of the standard should be changed to specifically address this case.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!petergo From: petergo@microsoft.UUCP (Peter GOLDE) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Multiple inheritance oversight? Message-ID: <58836@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 6 Nov 90 03:23:19 GMT Reply-To: petergo@microsoft.UUCP (Peter GOLDE) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 32