Version 2 of inheritance

Updated 2003-05-27 15:51:45

Concept in object-oriented design. Creation of object classes by deriving a new class from one or more base-classes. The derived class inherits behaviour and state of its bases. It can override all and /or parts of the inherited functionality to suit its own purposes.

escargo 26 May 2003 - Depending on the language, deriving might be known as extending. Additionally, in some languages, it might not be possible to override inherited functions if the code says that overriding should not be possible.

See also: Incr Tcl.


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