I basically want to do multiple inheritance with mixins. No, you probably don't. Some degree of "IMO" here, but in C++, multiple inheritance is generally an indicator of flawed design.

(I am guessing that C++ did not use such a syntax because it might have made the initial pre-processor-based implementation more difficult, though since anonymous unions came later the concept of ...

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 ...