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Re:Who owns Parliament? by gumby on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:03PM (#31599188)
> The War of the Roses had some multiple inheritance problems, too.

They defined a custom method combinator that squashed the diamond problem. Implementing it was literally painful for many of the people involved. Truly a killer problem.

Re:Who owns Parliament? by jameshart on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:06PM (#31600506)
And then in 16.8.8 they imported a completely new package from the Netherlands called 'Orange' (but they rebranded it), and marked a bunch of things as 'protected' to lock down inheritance.
Re:Who owns Parliament? by IncRnd on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:54AM (#31610038)
Even when there is an ISA relationship the subsequent objects are never quite the same as the root object for which the system was designed.