Multiple Inheritance occurs when a class inherits from more than one parent. For example, a person is a mammal and an intellectual_entity, and a document may be an editable_item and a kind of literature.
Mixin's is a style of MI (from flavors) where a class is created to provide additional attributes or properties to other classes. They are intended to be inherited by any class requiring them. Method combination, or calling sequences of before, after, and around methods or even several primary methods [Kim 89, ch 4], make good use of mixins by invoking their methods without explicitly calling them, allowing client class code to remain unchanged [Booch 91, p 113].
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