SingleInheritance
Last edit June 22, 2005
What you have when a class may have at most one direct superclass.
Examples of
ProgrammingLanguage
s which have
SingleInheritance
:
SmalltalkLanguage
JavaLanguage
ObjectiveCee
ModulaThree
Languages can get around the lack of
MultipleInheritance
by way of
CompositionInsteadOfInheritance
and
InterfaceImplementationByDelegation
.
Contrast:
MultipleInheritance
CategoryPolymorphism