Avoid accidental multiple inheritance
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Whenever you have found a multiple inheritance relationship in a object-oriented design be sure that no base class is actually a derived class of another base class, i.e. accidental multiple inheritance. -- Riel's Heuristic 6.3, Arthur Riel 1996