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What do you mean by inheritance?

Inheritance is the process of creating new classes, called derived classes, from existing classes or base classes. The derived class inherits all the capabilities of the base class, but can add embellishments and refinements of its own.

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Last Update: April 04, 2006

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Submitted by: v.chandrusekar

Inheritance is the property by which one class can acquire the properties of objects of another class..

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September 08, 2005 08:08:47

vishnu bobade

RE: What do you mean by inheritance?

Inheritance in C++
Recall that inheritance is a means of specifying hierarchical relationships between types

C++ classes can inherit both data and function members from other (parent) classes

In addition they inherit the is a relationship so that an object of a class SortedList (which inherits from class List) can be treated as an object of class List in most cases

Terminology: the child (or derived) class inherits (or is derived from) the parent (or base) class .

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January 17, 2006 04:24:20

v.chandrusekar

RE: What do you mean by inheritance? ...

Inheritance is the property by which one class can acquire the properties of objects of another class..

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April 04, 2006 07:36:22

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RE: What do you mean by inheritance? ...

Inheritance is the process of creating a new class called derived class from the existing class called base class.

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