Re: Dual interface

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:40:39 -0400
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:45387372-3598-41AB-AA8E-3F2BF4EE4319@microsoft.com

In VS 2008, I created an ATL project and make coclass (C++ class in
below sample) CCTest123 implements multiple dual interface --
interface ICTest123 and interface ITest456.

So, the code below,

public IDispatchImpl<ICTest123, &IID_ICTest123, &LIBID_TestATL1Lib,
/*wMajor =*/ 1, /*wMinor =*/ 0>,
public IDispatchImpl<ITest456, &__uuidof(ITest456),
&LIBID_TestATL1Lib, /* wMajor = */ 1, /* wMinor = */ 0>

will be expanded to

IDispatchImpl : ICTest123
IDispatchImpl : ITest456


IDispatchImpl is not a class, it's a template. The hierarchy is

IDispatchImpl<ICTest123, ...> : ICTest123
IDispatchImpl<ITest456, ...> : ITest456

IDispatchImpl<ICTest123, ...> and IDispatchImpl<ITest456, ...> are two
distinct classes, even though they are generated from the same template.

I think in C++ we do not allow such grammar


Who is "we" in this sentence? I personally have no problems with this
"grammar".

to make a class derive
from different classes, I expect compile error


Why? What's wrong with having one class derive from several different
classes? Surely you are familiar with the concept of "multiple
inheritance" by now.

but the code could
actually compile?? Any ideas why it could compile?


Because it's a valid C++ code, I guess. Why shouldn't it compile?
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