Re: Multiple Inheritance?

[Karl Nelson <kenelson ece ucdavis edu>]

> > I know its written in C, but I believe it has a strong Object Type
> > System. So why not multiple inheritance?
> >
> 
> AFAIK, there is no usable/sensibile/reasonable/whatever way to do
> multile inheritance in C.

That is completely untrue. Well, not that as far as you know there isn't. ;-)

In fact I proposed a system and demonstrated one which could
do multiple inheritance quite simply.  See

  http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/private/gos.tar.gz

Thus the "it can't be done" doesn't hold any water.  The
more acurate statement is that gtk+ developers don't want
to break the current system, nor do they see any value in providing 
the feature.  Those are of course just opinions which may be
disagreed with.  (I agree with part and disagree with the rest.) 
However, saying there is no usable/sensibile/reasonable way to
provide multiple inheritance is simply not true.

If we don't wish to provide MI then we should just say we don't,
rather than attempting to give technical reasons which can be shown
not to be true.

--Karl