On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 08:47, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> On 13/04/22 8:29 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> When multiple parent provide candidate to a method resolution, raise an 
> >> error.
> >
> > Then you aren't doing full MI any more,
>
> That sounds like a "true Scotsman" argument. Who defines what
> "full MI" means?

I've come to accept that the term "Multiple Inheritance" has multiple
meanings, all slightly different. They are related only in the sense
that there are, in some way, multiple parent classes. The actual
semantics vary from language to language in fairly vast ways (and
sometimes multiple within the language - your example showed C++ with
virtual subclassing, but if you remove the "virtual" keywords, it'll
behave differently).

While that doesn't mean different languages can't learn from each
other, it most certainly does confuse the discussions.

ChrisA
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