Multiple Inheritance for C
Bjarne Stroustrup · 1989
Multiple Inheritance is the ability of a class to have more than one base class (super class). In a language where multiple inheritance is supported a program can be structured as a set of inheritance lattices instead of (just) as a set of inheritance trees. This is widely believed to be an important structuring tool. It is also widely believed that multiple inheritance complicates a programming language significantly, is hard to implement, and is expensive to run. I will demonstrate that none of these last three conjectures are true. 1 Introduction This paper describes an implementation of a multiple inheritance mechanism for C++[4,6.] It provides only the most rudimentary explanation of what multiple inheritance is in general and what it can be used for+. The particular variation of the general concept implemented here is primarily explained in term of this implementation. First a bit of background on multiple inheritance and C++ implementation technique is presented, then th...