Re: viewpoints and multiple inheritance.

["Christopher A. Welty" <welty@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>]

At 12:24 -0400 8-06-2000, Frank Farance wrote:
>Multiple inheritance sounds great from a "conceptual" perspective. 
>Unfortunately, it runs into problems as soon as its used for hardened
>semantics.  The C++ standards committee discovered that multiple inheritance
>was a bad idea.  Here's a simple illustration of the problem:

You have proved only that C++ is ridiculous and should not be used 
for representing a top level ontology.  Let's keep focuses on 
ontological issues, not on syntactic ones.

-Chris W.

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