shopiro@alice.UUCP (Jonathan Shopiro) (09/10/89)
In the September SIGPLAN Notices there is an article, A Practical Example of Multiple Inheritance in C++, by Wiener and Pinson. Unfortunately, they got it completely wrong, so if you haven't seen it, don't bother, and if you have seen it and couldn't make sense out of it, don't worry. Their example is an IntegerArray type that syntactically inherits from two base classes, Array and Integer, but actually the Integer base class contributes nothing, and the Integer-ness of the derived class is due entirely to member functions in the derived class. We will publish a response to their article, with a correct example, in a forthcoming issue of SIGPLAN Notices. -- Jonathan Shopiro AT&T Bell Laboratories, Warren, NJ 07060-0908 research!shopiro (201) 580-4229
bhagwan@voodoo.UUCP (The Bhagwan) (09/11/89)
In article <9877@alice.UUCP> shopiro@alice.UUCP (Jonathan Shopiro) writes: > >In the September SIGPLAN Notices there is an article, A Practical >Example of Multiple Inheritance in C++, by Wiener and Pinson. >Unfortunately, they got it completely wrong... > >We will publish a response to their article, with a correct example, >in a forthcoming issue of SIGPLAN Notices. Note: Place no particular `spin' on this post. These two gentlemen are teaching "Advanced Programming Concepts in C++" at OOPSLA. For your information... -- Al McPherson Member Holstein Aerobatic Team Boeing Computer Services ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!voodoo!bhagwan P.O. Box 24346 MS: 6M-49 Seattle, WA 98124 (206) 234-7825
newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) (09/13/89)
In article <585@voodoo.UUCP> bhagwan@voodoo.UUCP (The Bhagwan) writes: >In article <9877@alice.UUCP> shopiro@alice.UUCP (Jonathan Shopiro) writes: >> >>In the September SIGPLAN Notices there is an article, A Practical >>Example of Multiple Inheritance in C++, by Wiener and Pinson. >>Unfortunately, they got it completely wrong... > >For your information... I have read the Wiener and Pinson article. I don't know whether I should laugh or cry. It is just so `confused' in every respect. Had one of my M.Sc. students written this, there could only have been one comment: redo. Dag Michael Bruck -- Department of Automatic Control Internet: dag@control.lth.se Lund Institute of Technology P. O. Box 118 Phone: +46 46-108779 S-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN Fax: +46 46-138118