Re: Template Nodes considered harmful

On Oct 25, 2007, at 8:00 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:20 -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
>>> (20:16:21) sheeri: certainly I can see the need for something being
>>> both
>>> a "webserver" and a "dbserver".......which I'd think multiple
>>> inheritance
>>> would be the way to go
>>
>> Inheritance only makes sense when you're talking about one class
>> needing to modify another class, which is generally not the case.
>
> The point of the above (or at list the pointy end I've run into) is  
> that
> you may want to create a class 'fooserver' by combining 'webserver'  
> and
> 'dbserver', and give people the opportunity to modify resources coming
> from either. That's not possible with single inheritance.

I agree with your general point, but I didn't see that as being the  
question being asked by sheeri, which to me said that s/he didn't  
understand the difference between inheritance and inclusion.

I've already said I'd accept your patch that allowed multiple  
inheritance. :)

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