You
can inherit from one class, so it would seem to make sense to inherit from more
than one class at a time. Indeed you can, but whether it makes sense as part of
a design is a subject of continuing debate. One thing is generally agreed upon:
You shouldn’t try this until you’ve been programming quite a while
and understand the language thoroughly. By that time, you’ll probably
realize that no matter how much you think you absolutely must use multiple
inheritance, you can almost always get away with single inheritance.
Initially,
multiple inheritance seems simple enough: You add more classes in the
base-class list during inheritance, separated by commas. However, multiple
inheritance introduces a number of possibilities for ambiguity, which is why
Chapter XX is devoted to the subject.