New+old-style multiple inheritance

George Sakkis george.sakkis at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 12:42:07 EST 2007


On Dec 19, 12:01 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:

>  They should have converted the
> old-style to new when they decided to derive from both types (it's not
> like that's terribly difficult).

Unless perhaps the old-style class is part of an stdlib or 3rd party
(or rather 4th party since "they" are the 3rd party here ;-)) module.
Even if it's technically possible and the change doesn't break other
things, I'd rather not have to maintain a patched version of the
stdlib.

George



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