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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Repeated Inheritance Ambiguity: some thoughts
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Date: 11 Mar 90 19:27:44 GMT
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/ comp.lang.eiffel / db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) / Mar 11, 1990 /

> 			class A
> 			  feature f, g
> 	
> 	class P1			class P2
> 	  inherit A			  inherit P2
> 	    rename f as p1_f		    rename f as p2_f
> 	    rename g as p1_g		    rename g as p2_g

> 3. In the definition of the class.  This avoids the syntax above, but
>    has the disadvantage that the choice is fixed for all uses.
> 
>    A possible syntax for the third approach is:
> 
>    		priority p1_f, p2_g;

Doesn't

			class D
			  inherit P1, P2
			    rename p1_f as f
			    rename p2_g as g

do what you want?

Jacob
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