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Multiple inheritance
Multiple inheritance refers to a feature of some object-oriented programming languages in which a class can inherit behaviors and features from more than one superclass. This contrasts with single inheritance, where a class may inherit from only one superclass.Languages that mostly support multiple inheritance are: EiffelC++PythonPerl, and CLOS.Multiple inheritance allows a class to take on functionality from multiple other classes, such as allowing a class named StudentMusician to inherit from a class named Person, a class named Musician, and a class named Worker. This can be abbreviated StudentMusician : Person, Musician, Worker.
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multiple inheritance
<programming> In object-oriented programming, the possibility that a sub-class may be derived from multiple parent classes which are themselves not derived one from the other.
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