CHAPTER 14 INHERITANCE
In this chapter, we introduce the inheritance relationship that may exist between classes. It is widely used in object-oriented applications and brings to our designs and programs a powerful feature unique to object orientation.
Inheritance (also known as specialization) is a way to form new classes using classes that have already been defined. The former, known as derived classes, inherit properties and behaviors of the latter, which are referred to as base classes. The terms parent class and child class as well as superclass and subclass are also used in this context. Inheritance is intended to help reuse existing code with little or no modification.
Inheritance is also called generalization. For instance, an account ...
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