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Re: multiple inheritance

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  To: Lew
From: =?UTF-8?B?QXJuZSBWYWpow7hq?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

On 8/12/2012 11:19 PM, Lew wrote:
> Arne Vajh-,j wrote:
>> Roedy Green wrote:
>>> 1. It has interfaces which gives much of the ability at lighter
>>> weight..
>>
>> Only for a very limited type of types (those with no implementation
>> at all).
>
> That is true, but "very limited" might be misconstrued as "not very
> useful". That Java limits multiple inheritance to interfaces is a design
> decision of the language, and confers advantages.

Indeed.

Implementation inheritance is not in fashion in Java, so interfaces is the 
majority of cases.

A classic text:

http://www.artima.com/intv/gosling34.html


> There are vanishingly few cases where one cannot mix in implementation
> through a combination of composition and single inheritance of
> implementation ('class' parent types) to accomplish with equal facility
> what multiple implementation inheritance would. Avoiding the sorts of
> downsides mentioned upthread is the motivation.

There are some solutions to those problems. But Java was designed to be simple, 
so we got what we got.

Arne

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