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Ah, the classical fallacy. Whenever someone raises an objection against use of inheritance, or multiple inheritance, someone is bound to step up and say you should have redesigned your entire inheritance tree differently.

Well, then you have missed one of the important aspects of OO: code reuse and encapsulation. You want to be able to take an existing Radio class, and an existing CDplayer class, and combine them into a Radio/CDplayer. Regardless how the Radio class and the CDplayer class are implemented. Hopefully, they are build using smaller units, and if I'm lucky, they share some parts as well. But ultimately, for me, as the constructor of the Radio/CDplayer, it shouldn't matter how the Radio and the CDplayer are implemented - that's what's encapsulation is about. I do have to care about overlap in the API - both classes may have an on method, and they both may have a volume method. My combined object probably wants two on methods (although they can't be both called 'on'), but on volume method. I do have to care about the interface, but I should not have to care about setting the volume - the inheriting classes will know.

If I can only do (multiple) inheritance properly if I'm in full control of the entire inheritance tree, OO becomes utterly useless to me. I want to reuse code. Reuse code that I haven't written, and shouldn't need to inspect.

In reply to Re: You need to break up the design more cleanly. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Understanding 'Multiple Inheritance' by punkish

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