To quote Bjarne Stroustrup, "Multiple inheritance is like a parachute. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do need it, you really need it." In the early days of C++, before templates ...

So they cut multiple inheritance from the language (just as they cut operator overloading). The designers’ extensive C++ experience taught them that multiple inheritance just wasn’t worth the ...

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 20:17 Report this post Quote: As Levine suggested, multiple C++ inheritance is indicative of poor design. Meh. I'll take that as grudging agreement, with caveats and reservation.