Why java does not support multiple inheritance ?

because there was a meeting and it was decided so. you weren't invited. maybe had you been there, you could have made an intelligent and convincing argument for the inclusing of multiple inheritence. feel free to make this statement via the bug report system, and maybe it will be given consideration. you can probably even support an existing bug report/feature request for it.

of course you'd know all this if you bothered to SEARCH.

shoopy.a at 2007-7-8 8:57:06 >

> Hai friends ..iam new to java .. i have doubt ..plz

> help me

> Why java does not support multiple inheritance ?

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=Why+java+doesnt+support+multiple+inheritance&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

qUesT_foR_knOwLeDgea at 2007-7-8 8:57:06 >

> well it is logical, how can a child have two father or two mother.

Inheritance in computer programming means something completely different than in biology.

Many people make the mistake by making this analogy: that a subclass is a "child" and its superclass is a "parent". That is not the case.

Maybe it shouldn't have been called "inheritance", because that word seems to confuse people into thinking that it has anything to do with inheritance in the biological sense.

jesperdja at 2007-7-8 8:57:06 >

> well it is logical, how can a child have two father or two mother.

Stretching a tenuous analogy is a bad idea. And it is possible for a child to have to mothers, at least in Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070103/n010302A.html

quote:

An Ontario boy can legally have two mothers and a father, the province's highest court ruled Tuesday.

The same-sex partner of the child's biological mother went to court seeking to also be declared a mother of the boy...

DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-8 8:57:06 >