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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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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

dngr_dv

Member Since: April 2006 Contribution: 3

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

hi,

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

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