make use of multiple implementation inheritance, providing only interface inheritance. Delphi is of the same mind. The odd man out would be the geriatric C++ ... but who uses <I>that</I> anymore?

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 ...

For our example there would be one entry. Diagrammatically you have: That in a nutshell is inheritance and virtual functions. This isn’t a tutorial but just a glimpse into this feature of C++.