inheritance

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can you do inheritance with more than five classes?

Vulpes · Answer

There are plenty of situations which multiple inheritance can model better than single inheritance. The most obvious one is a Person class which inherits from both a Mother and a Father class. Check out this link which has some class diagrams for multiple inheritance in C++ including one for the 'diamond' problem where a class inherits from two classes which each inherit from a single base class: http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/117-multiple-inheritance/

Mongezi Sithole · Answer

@vulpes i didn't know, why would a class have more then one parents classes? to me that doesn't make sense, can you please send a class diagram for those classes if you can?

Mongezi Sithole · Answer

@vulpes i didn't know, why would a class have more then one parents classes? to me that doesn't make sense, can you please send a class diagram for those classes if you can?

Lindokuhle Dlamini · Answer

as long as it not sealed.

Vulpes · Answer

@Mongezi, Yes, there are languages which support multiple inheritance despite the ambiguities which this entails. They include well known languages such as C++, Eiffel, Perl and Python.

Mhlengi Ntshangase · Answer

Yes u can if only they is one parent class and all the child classes code are going to inherit from the same class

Lindoh Mthiya · Answer

yes as long as they after not sealed

Mongezi Sithole · Answer

@Vulpes does that mean there are languages that support multiple inheritance, like one class that have more than one parent classes?

Vulpes · Answer

Yes, as long as each class doesn't have more than one parent. C# doesn't support multiple inheritance where a class can have two or more parent classes.

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