Re: vtable with virtual base class?
On Dec 12, 8:18 pm, Dave Johansen <davejohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 12, 12:01 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
He doesn't not use the term "diamond problem" but Section
7 explains the issue exactly and describes the motivation
for why C++ chose the methodology that it did.
He doesn't use the term "diamond problem" because there isn't
any problem, except in people's imagination.
I agree that it's not technically a "problem" but just the way
the language is defined/behaves, but that doesn't mean that
the term "diamond problem" doesn't have merit (easily
describes a situation that may not be familiar to programmers
not familiar with the details of C++ multiple inheritance).
The word "problem" is loaded, and creates the wrong impression.
Diamond inheritance would be the descriptive term. But I'm not
sure that we even need a special name for it.
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