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Object-oriented Programming

Notes 9.2.3 Multiple Inheritance

A class can inherit the attributes of two or more classes. This mechanism is known as ‘MULTIPLE
INHERITANCE’. Multiple inheritance allows us to combine the features of several existing
classes as a starting point for defining new classes.

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Caution It is like the child inheriting the physical feature of one parent and the intelligence
of another.
The syntax of the derived class is as follows:

Class base1 Class base2
{ {
//body1 //body2
} }

Class derived : visibility base1, visibility base2
{
//body3
}

Task A direct base class cannot appear in the base list of a derived class more than once.
Discuss.

Where the visibility refers to the access specifiers i.e. public, private or protected. Following
program shows the multiple inheritance.
# include < iostream.h>
# include < conio.h>
class father //Declaration of base class1
{
int age;
char name [20];
public:
void get ( );
void show ( );
};
void father : : get ( )
{
cout << “your father name please”;
cin >> name;

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