The C Programming language doesn't actually support inheritance, it only supports composition. However, the following code demonstrates how we can use composition to approximate single inheritance:
struct Base {
int data;
};
struct Derived {
struct Base base;
// ...
};
int main (void) {
struct Derived d;
d.base.data = 42;
return 0;
}
C is not an object oriented language and therefore has no native support for inheritance.
C is not object-oriented -- you can't even use single inheritance let alone multiple inheritance.
You don't. Inheritance is a feature of object oriented programming languages. C is not object oriented.
Inheritance.
mean an inheritance that is too heavy to bear.
C++ allows multiple inheritance while Java does not. In my opinion, multiple inheritance is not useful because it can get very confusing very quick. For polymorphism, C++ does early binding by default, while Java does late binding by default. Late binding is more useful than early binding.
single level inheritance eg ( class B extends Class A) Multilevel inheritance eg( class C extends class B and class B extends class A) multiple inheritance Class C inherits Class A features as well as Class B featues.This type of inheritance is not allowed in JAVA.
Yes.
C is not object oriented and therefore has no concept of inheritance of any kind.
interface inheritance is a misleading term. Interface inheritance would be equivalent to the union of the method signatures of interfaces ( no typo here, an interface may implment multiple other interfaces) Class inheritance - single hierarchy (in C#), and not only the methods are inherited, but also the data members. (interface in C# cannot define data members)
Java does not support direct multiple Inheritance. Harder to implement, not every language support it: C++ does, Java does not.
Single, multiple, multi-level, hierarchical and hybrid/virtual inheritance. Single inheritance applies when one class inherits from just one base class. Multiple inheritance applies when one class inherits from two or more base classes. Multi-level inheritance applies to a class that inherits from at least one base class that is itself derived from another base class. Hierarchical inheritance applies to a base class that is inherited by two or more separate derived classes. Hybrid inheritance combines multiple inheritance, multi-level inheritance and hierarchical inheritance. That is, where A is a common base class of derived classes B and C, and B and C are both base classes of derived class D. Hybrid inheritance is often used with virtual inheritance where B and C inherit from A virtually rather than directly. In these cases, the virtual base class is instantiated by the most-derived class in the hierarchy, D, and this instance is then shared by both B and C.