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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Multiple Inheritance
Message-ID: <59892@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 90 18:24:00 GMT
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In article <39936@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
|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".

Can someone in the know verify that it is indeed the second version of
"The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" that is coming out in Feb,
or per chance, is it the long awaited updated version of Stroustrup's
original book "The C++ Programming Language" that is coming out then?

[It is "The C++ Programming Language" that lacks coverage of MI]