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From: Valentin Bonnard <bonnardv@pratique.fr>
Subject: Re: Ambiguous conversion due to private ba
Date: 1998/03/26
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Steve Clamage wrote:

> Thus, private inheritance fails any test of the IsA relationship.

I would say that private inheritance is a private IsA relationship. 
It means that only some trusted functions (member, friends) are 
aware of the relationship, which may change in the future.

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