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From: tonyw@microsoft.UUCP (Tony Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Problem with multiple inheritance? (was Objective C vs C++)
Message-ID: <1140@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 20:00:34 GMT
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In article <3438@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> david@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
>only use multiple-inheritance when you have the source of all classes
>back to their roots because a client can introduce bugs which a C++
>compliler won't catch; etc. etc. etc.

Is this described anywhere in the literature?  Can anyone tell me about
the problems referred to here?
   Tony