Single Inheritance

What you have when a class may have at most one direct superclass.

Examples of ProgrammingLanguages which have SingleInheritance:

Languages can get around the lack of MultipleInheritance by way of CompositionInsteadOfInheritance and InterfaceImplementationByDelegation.

Contrast: MultipleInheritance

CategoryPolymorphism

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