Avoid accidental multiple inheritance

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Whenever there is inheritance in an object-oriented design ask yourself two questions: 1) Am I a special type of the thing I'm inheriting from? and 2) Is the thing I'm inheriting from part of me? -- Riel's Heuristic 6.3, Arthur Riel 1996

See also

• Riel's heuristics
• Multiple Inheritance
• Avoid multiple inheritance