[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

[James A. Donald]

On 2013-10-02 23:09, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> No, the reason for baring multiple inheritance is not that it is too 
> clever, it is that studies have shown that code using multiple 
> inheritance is much harder for other people to understand than code 
> using single inheritance.�

That is because of the class of problems for which it is appropriate to 
use multiple inheritance.

>
> The original reason multiple inheritance was added to C was to support 
> collections.

Was it?   And regardless of whether that was the reason, not what it is 
used for today.

> So I can't see where C++ is helping. It is reducing, not improving my 
> productivity.

C++ greatly improves my productivity, in particular the memory 
management classes std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr, though if using 
them means you have to use std::weak_ptr, then one has to pause and think.



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