10.4 HYBRID INHERITANCE
Hybrid inheritance is a combination of multiple inheritance and multilevel inheritance. A class is derived from two classes as in multiple inheritance. However, one of the parent classes is not a base class. It is a derived class. This is shown in Figure 10.5.
Let us assume class PlainTicket. It contains information like class (I or II) of travel, distance and fare. Consider a case of class SimpleTicket, a class derived from class PlainTicket. It has additional fields of say date, source and destination stations. Class PaxInfo stores the information of a passenger. Assume that railway issues separate reserved ticket to every passenger. Now class ReservedTicket is derived from PaxInfo and SimleTicket. It is an example of ...
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