Chapter 12. 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
 

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

 
 --Augustine Birrell
 

Save base authority from others’ books.

 
 --William Shakespeare

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

  • To create classes by inheriting from existing classes.

  • How inheritance 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. ...

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