# Multiple Parent Types: How to go about it?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multiple-parent-types-how-to-go-about-it/66493>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, inheritance\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multiple-parent-types-how-to-go-about-it/66493 "2021-08-16T15:15:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multiple-parent-types-how-to-go-about-it/66493/22 "2021-08-24T09:05:16Z")

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You’ve missed the point of issue #5. Traits are a kind of multiple inheritance of behavior, which is seperate from inheritance of structure. The comment I linked to includes an overview about traits.

That is, advocating for better traits _is advocating for a certain kind of multiple inheritance_.

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