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Recall that Java supports only single inheritance, and so a translation based on multiple inheritance is only possible through interfaces, not classes.

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... follows:²

Note that the setting of tieObject must be the last member variable initialization. If not, then the member variables of the tie object may be initialized to incorrect values.

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