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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: object oriented design decision
Message-ID: <4086@enea.se>
Date: 17 Nov 88 21:26:41 GMT
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Daniel B Hankins (dan-hankins@cup.portal.com) writes:
>Thanks for all the email responses to my query.  To summarize:
>
>Multiple inheritance is an indication that something is wrong with the class
>hierarchy.  Restructure that and single inheritance should do fine.  
 
Could anyone elaborate this? I fail to see what is bad with multiple 
inheritance. If I want to store an object in a tree and a 
linked list simultaneously, what is wrong with my class structure?

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Erland Sommarskog
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