To quote Bjarne Stroustrup, "Multiple inheritance is like a parachute. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do need it, you really need it." In the early days of C++, before templates ...

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 20:17 Report this post Quote: As Levine suggested, multiple C++ inheritance is indicative of poor design. Meh. I'll take that as grudging agreement, with caveats and reservation.

So they cut multiple inheritance from the language (just as they cut operator overloading). The designers’ extensive C++ experience taught them that multiple inheritance just wasn’t worth the ...