| What is multiple inheritance? What are its advantages and disadvantages? |
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| Thursday, 01 September 2011 15:22 |
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Multiple Inheritance is the process whereby a child can be derived from more than one parent class. The advantage of multiple inheritance is that it allows a class to inherit the functionality of more than one base class thus allowing for modeling of complex relationships. The disadvantage of multiple inheritance is that it can lead to a lot of confusion (ambiguity) when two base classes implement a method with the same name. |
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