Re: Can there be problems when a class is multiply inherited from 1000s of classes
On 28 Maj, 13:05, Janaka Perera <janaka...@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 28, 2:31 pm, Erik Wikstr=F6m <eri...@student.chalmers.se wrote:
On 28 Maj, 11:06, Janaka Perera <janaka...@gmail.com wrote:
[Janaka Perera]
We have done a object oriented design for a system which will create a
class multiply inherited by around 1000 small and medium sized
classes.<snip>
[Erik Wikstr=F6m]
What John asked was if the object you are talking about will inherit
from 1000 classes or if 1000 different classes will inherit from the
object.
In the later case there should be no problems. In the first case there
might be some problems with the compiler (though I doubt it) and there
might be an impact on performance. However that would probably be the
least of your problem since trying to maintain such a monster would be
a nightmare.
[Me]
It's the first case. If there is a performance impact, it definitely
going to be a problem for us. But maintaining the code will not be a
much problem since we are developing a code generator which will
generate code using a meta-base.
If one might ask, how did you come up with that design. I can't think
of any good reason to inherit from so many classes. You can't possibly
have that many interfaces so you are most probably inheriting to get
functionality, but if you use generation why not just put it straight
in the class?
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