C++ How to Program, Ninth Edition

11. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

—Johann Kasper Lavater

This method is to define as the number of a class the class of all classes similar to the given class.

—Bertrand Russell

Save base authority from others’ books.

—William Shakespeare

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• What inheritance is and how it promotes software reuse.

• The notions of base classes and derived classes and the relationships between them.

• The protected member access specifier.

• The use of constructors and destructors in inheritance hierarchies.

• The order in which constructors and destructors are called in inheritance hierarchies.

• The differences between public