17. An Introduction to Kotlin Inheritance and Subclassing
In “The Basics of Object Oriented Programming in Kotlin” we covered the basic concepts of object-oriented programming and worked through an example of creating and working with a new class using Kotlin. In that example, our new class was not specifically derived from a base class (though in practice, all Kotlin classes are ultimately derived from the Any class). In this chapter we will provide an introduction to the concepts of subclassing, inheritance and extensions in Kotlin.
17.1 Inheritance, Classes and Subclasses
The concept of inheritance brings something of a real-world view to programming. It allows a class to be defined that has a certain set of characteristics (such as methods ...
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