On 2013-10-02 23:09, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
No, the reason for baring multiple inheritance is not that it is too clever, it is that studies have shown that code using multiple inheritance is much harder for other people to understand than code using single inheritance.�
That is because of the class of problems for which it is appropriate to use multiple inheritance.
The original reason multiple inheritance was added to C was to support collections.
Was it? And regardless of whether that was the reason, not what it is used for today.
So I can't see where C++ is helping. It is reducing, not improving my productivity.
C++ greatly improves my productivity, in particular the memory management classes std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr, though if using them means you have to use std::weak_ptr, then one has to pause and think.
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