Serious brain fart right now

[Mark Fabrizio]

I'm having a Design issue here. I want to have an object Person (or an interface, depending) be a base class. I then want to allow another class, Dealer, to extend or implement Person. I also want a class called Salesman to extend or implement Person.
For some reason, I can't think of a way that would allow a Person to be both a Dealer and a Salesman at the same time.
Any comments/help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Person has a Role of Salesman and/or Dealer?

[Mark Fabrizio]

yes,
A Person can exist by itself. A Dealer inherits all Person methods as does a Salesman. A Person could be a Salesman and a Dealer at the same time. But it could also just be a Salesman, or just a Dealer.

[Cindy Glass]

If a person "has a" role (or multiple roles) instead of "is a" salesman or whatever, then there is no problem.
The roles would not necessarily extend person, they would just define job behaviors.

[Mark Fabrizio]

Thanks for your help,
I think I was trying to use inheritance for the wrong reasons.