Core C++ A Software Engineering Approach

Chapter 13. Similar Classes: How to Treat Them

Topics in this Chapter

• Treating Similar Classes

• Syntax of C++ Inheritance

• Accessing Base and Derived Class Services

• Accessing Base Components of a Derived Class Object

• Scope Rules and Name Resolution Under Inheritance

• Constructors and Destructors for Derived Classes

• Summary

In this chapter, as in the previous ones, you are going to see more C++ syntax—keywords, colons, initialization lists, and the like. Make sure that this flood of syntactic details does not hide from you an important shift in the focus of your attention.

In the first part of this book, you learned computational aspects of C++. You learned about such traditional programming topics as data types, identifiers, keywords, ...