Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Programming
As you saw in Chapter 4, the primary use of a class is to introduce a new type that more directly represents an entity in our application domain. In a library check-out application, for example, it is generally easier to program the classes Book, Borrower, and DueDate directly than to translate the program logic to the underlying character, arithmetic, and Boolean data types.
The object-based programming model proves cumbersome when our application begins to be filled with class types that represent an is-a-kind-of instance of a type. For example, imagine that over time our library check-out application must add support for a RentalBook class, an AudioBook class, and an InteractiveBook class in addition ...
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