Cyclical interface aggregation

General
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Suppose I wish to be able to handle:

  • objects with a ‘blah_A’ method
  • objects with a ‘blah_B’ method
  • objects with both a ‘blah_A’ and a ‘blah_B’ method

Additionally, suppose that all interfaces must support ‘blah_X’

To achieve the above, I construct four interfaces as follows:

interface X
    sub blah_X()

interface A aggregates X
    sub blah_A

interface B aggregates X
    sub blah_B

interface BOTH aggregates A,B

Trouble is, that Xojo fails to compile this, throwing error “This interface contains a cyclical interface aggregation”

Could someone explain why this cannot be compiled?

I suppose that BOTH can see two copies of blah_X - one through aggregating A and one through aggregating B, so it might seem ambiguous.

But we know that both these blah_X should route to the same implementation of the method in the object, so any ambiguity is easily resolved.