"Super()" confusion

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Tue Feb 10 10:47:57 EST 2009


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:11:10 -0800, Michele Simionato wrote:

> Unfortunately there is no good solution. If you have a single
> inheritance hierarchy and you do not use super, you make it impossible
> for users of your hierarchy to subclass it by using multiple
> inheritance in a cooperative way (this is not polite).

So I'm impolite.  :-)  I'm using multiple inheritance only for mixin 
classes and even that quite seldom.  No `super()` in my code.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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