[AccessD] Class costs & benefits

...with every step forward there are new problems that have to be resolved 
..."no no no no no" would still have us wearing fig leaves :(

William

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From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:08 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Class costs & benefits

>
> Hi Arthur,
>
> Have a look - Ruby has multiple inheritance features implememted using so 
> called Mix-ins to effectively solve the issue you mentioned:
>
> http://www.artima.com/intv/tuesday2.html
>
> I'd bet C# and VB.NEt will follow this pattern or something like that in 
> the future versions (but not yet in next versions C#4.0 and VB10 (VBx))...
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Shamil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem 
> solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:01:27 -0500
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Class costs & benefits
>
>> No no no no no, I interject. Multiple inheritance has been deemed
>> problematic in virtually language that offered it. It is simply too crazy 
>> a
>> construct for mere mortals such as myself to handle. For example, suppose
>> that I inherit from both class A and B, and each has a method of the same
>> name. How to distringuish which one you want? This path IMO leads to nuts
>> documentation and nuts programming. Even the C++ guys have abandoned this
>> approach.
>>
>> A.
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