Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
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title:
Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
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In object-oriented programming, inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object or class, retaining similar implementation. Also defined as deriving new classes from existing ones such as super class or base class and then forming them into a hierarchy of classes. In most class-based object-oriented languages like C++, an object created through inheritance, a "child object", acquires all the properties and behaviors of the "parent object", with the exception of: con
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Process of deriving classes from, and organizing them into, a hierarchy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_(object-oriented_programming)
date created:
2001-12-20T23:30:10Z
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2024-09-07T07:52:04Z
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