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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Multiple Inheritance
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Date: 7 Dec 90 00:28:10 GMT
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In article <_!B^$1$@rpi.edu>, fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
> The responses I received said, simply, that multiple inheritance was not
> part of the original C++ definition by Ellis and Stroustroup, but was added
> to version 2.0 of the AT&T C++ compiler and has become a de facto feature
> in all recent implementations.  I was also informed that the 2nd edition of
> Ellis and Stroustroup's "Annotated C++ Reference Manual", which should be out
> by 2/91, will cover multiple inheritance as well.

GACK!!  The CURRENT edition of the ARM covers multiple inheritance.
It's in the language now, and documented in all the books you describe.
It's no longer a "new feature".


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Joe Buck
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