Re: [julia-users] Why multiple abstract type inheritance is not possible in Julia?

2016-05-05 Thread Stefan Karpinski
No, it's just a very challenging design and implementation problem. It's also unclear if it's even a good idea to have this feature. C++ for example has multiple inheritance but many people consider it too complex and prone to breakage, which is why Java does not have multiple inheritance. There

[julia-users] Why multiple abstract type inheritance is not possible in Julia?

2016-05-04 Thread Martin Kuzma
Hello everyone, I know that subtyping from more than one abstract type is not possible. I also found multiple issues on github with this problem. But i could not find enywhere a reason why it is not possible. Can somebody please explain to me why? Does it have something to do with how the