On 8/30/12, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2012 Richard Henderson <r...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 08/27/2012 11:58 AM, Lawrence Crowl wrote: > > > > > I wonder if the second discriminator support is easily > > > > > generalizable to enabling any derived class being a root > > > > > class on it own with its own subtree? If I understand > > > > > correctly, the GTY syntax would be the same. > > > > > > If I understand correctly, you are suggesting multiple > > > inheritance via enums. I think it is possible, but I think > > > the tag syntax would need to be changed to more directly > > > associate the tag with the variable. > > > > I understood Laurynas to be suggesting not multiple inheritance, > > but composition? > > The coding convention recommends avoiding multiple inheritance, but > it did not ban it altogether. I would be unfortunate that gengtype > takes the step of banning it -- by effectively not supporting it.
The present implementation need is for single inheritance. It would be reasonable to plan for eventual support of multiple inheritance. Do you have a suggestion for syntax to that end? -- Lawrence Crowl
