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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Multiple inheritance

Multiple inheritance

In C++ it is perfectly possible that a class inherits members from more than one class. This is done by simply separating the different base classes with commas in the derived class declaration. For example, if we had a specific class to print on screen (COutput) and we wanted our classes CRectangle and CTriangle to also inherit its members in addition to those of CPolygon we could write:
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class CRectangle: public CPolygon, public COutput;
class CTriangle: public CPolygon, public COutput; 
 


here is the complete example:

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// multiple inheritance
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class CPolygon {
  protected:
    int width, height;
  public:
    void set_values (int a, int b)
      { width=a; height=b;}
  };

class COutput {
  public:
    void output (int i);
  };

void COutput::output (int i) {
  cout << i << endl;
  }

class CRectangle: public CPolygon, public COutput {
  public:
    int area ()
      { return (width * height); }
  };

class CTriangle: public CPolygon, public COutput {
  public:
    int area ()
      { return (width * height / 2); }
  };
  
int main () {
  CRectangle rect;
  CTriangle trgl;
  rect.set_values (4,5);
  trgl.set_values (4,5);
  rect.output (rect.area());
  trgl.output (trgl.area());
  return 0;
}

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