As Levine suggested, multiple C++ inheritance is indicative of poor design. ... Think of it as a whole bunch of overlapping Venn diagrams for what musical things support what properties, ...

To quote Bjarne Stroustrup, "Multiple inheritance is like a parachute. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do need it, you really need it." In the early days of C++, before templates ...

So they cut multiple inheritance from the language (just as they cut operator overloading). The designers’ extensive C++ experience taught them that multiple inheritance just wasn’t worth the ...