Glossary
Object-oriented programming techniques introduce many new ideas and terms that may not be familiar to the novice, even if he or she has had extensive experience with other programming languages. More problematic is that among the various object-oriented languages, several terms are often used for the same idea. Such terms are listed as synonyms in the following glossary. Also indicated are situations where a term is given a particular meaning in one language that is not the same for other languages.
abstract class Syn. deferred class, abstract superclass. A class that is not used to make direct instances but rather is used only as a base from which other classes inherit. In C++, the term is often reserved for classes that contain at ...
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