Multiple Inheritance
In a programming language that does not support multiple inheritance of base classes, wrapper functions can be used to simulate it. Below is an example of part of a Java class that "inherits" from LinkedList and HashSet.
public class StackSet implements Stack, Set { private LinkedList stack; private HashSet set; public boolean push(Object o) { if (set.add(o)) return stack.push(o); else return false; } public Object pop { Object o = stack.pop; set.remove(o); return o; } public boolean contains(Object o) { return set.contains(o); } }Read more about this topic: Wrapper Function
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