API problems (Was: future versions)

[Simon Hausmann]

On Saturday 07 February 2004 02:54, Marc Mutz wrote:
> The accumulated mess in kdelibs/interfaces. Yes, I'm all for interfaces
> but requiring a text editor to implement - say - a dozen "interfaces"
> is quite heavy, esp. since they each require virtual inheritance, which
> is surprisingly memory intensive.

Out of curiousity, why do they require virtual inheritance? Kate for once 
manages to implement them without.

Simon