From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T00:41:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs Java vs c++

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Chilkat Software wrote:
> - multiple inheritance

C++ mixins anyone? Multiple inheritance with data is evil, but as long
as you only implement pure interfaces or mixins with it, it's
acceptable. It's not like a language should restrict its users with
regards to how horribly they can break the code (and brains) of other
people reusing their creations, eh?

> - operator overloading

Except for contexts where the -semantics- of the operator isn't being
overloaded, just implemented for a case the language doesn't natively
supported. Matrix multiplication -is- multiplication and a fine use
case, using, oh, shall we say, << for something that's not a bitshift,
like pushing data into an array or a stream (which some C++ texts
ironically discourage) is indeed bad.

*runs for the hills - FAST*


David Vallner
Meditating upon Pots and Kettles


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