Why multiple inheritances are not supported in Java

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• Category: JAVA/Core JAVA

• Submitted on: 2011-08-10 14:56:25

• Submitted By: Javin Paul

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more convincing reason to me is that multiple inheritances does complicate the design and creates problem during casting, constructor chaining etc and given that there are not many scenario on which you need multiple inheritance its wise decision to omit it for the sake of simplicity. Also java avoids this ambiguity by supporting single inheritance with interfaces. Since interface only have method declaration and doesn't provide any implementation there will only be just one implementation of specific method hence there would not be any ambiguity.    More detail...

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