API problems (Was: future versions)

[David Faure]

On Monday 09 February 2004 22:43, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> I actually don't understand why virtual inheritance was chosen for the dcop 
> interfaces.

For the (rare?) case of a diamond-shape inheritance tree.

Meanwhile, most people (including me for a long time) get confused by virtual inheritance
and struggle a long time to pass a name to the DCOPObject (when deriving from the
virtual-inherited-from-DCOPObject class). (Hint: DCOPObject("name")).

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Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).