multiple inheritance

From: andy (andy_wil_at_dot.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:51:00 GMT

Should multiple inheritance be totally avoided or as long as the classes
inherited are not derived from the same "root" class? Is that a good
practice to derive a class from a parent class and several other classes of
only pure virtual functions? Thanks!

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