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to: PIERRE PHANEUF
from: THOMAS MAEDER
date: 1997-04-19 12:41:00
subject: Rating of C++

PP> This is crazy. Like those so-called "keywords" for casting... Since
PP> supposed to see "dynamic_cast" and recognise this as a KEYWORD for c
If you program in C++, you are supposed to know the language. To  help
you  recognizing  the  keywords, you can use a text editor with syntax
highlighting.
PP> Looks like a damn Pascallian variable name! ;-)) One of the suggeste
PP> the "= 0" is to "add" a keyword like this:
This  sure  wasn't done because it wouldn't add anything useful to the
language.
PP> I have yet to see a case where I'd *REALLY* need it.
I don't think that there are problems you can't solve without multiple
inheritance. But there are cases where MI allows elegant designs  that
are easy to reuse, understand and maintain.
One  example  are "mixin classes": you isolate a certain responsibilty
into a class and (multiply) inherit from  it  when  you  want  another
class to have this responsibility.
Thomas
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