At 10:47 PM +1000 10/11/01, Martin Sevior wrote:
>It is part of abiword's folklore that we do not allow multiple inheritance
>for portability reasons.

        Correct.


>I suspect that MSFT is unlikely to improve their C++ compiler anytime soon
>so I guess it should remain forbidden.
>

        You are have the wrong compiler on this one, Martin.  VC++
has always supported MI - it's necessary to build MFC (Microsoft's
Foundation Classes).  It's older versions of gcc that didn't like it
very much :(.


Leonard
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