C H A P T E R  7

Classes and Inheritance

Class Inheritance

Inheritance allows you to define a new class that incorporates and extends an already declared class.

  • You can use an existing class, called the base class, as the basis for a new class, called the derived class. The members of the derived class consist of the following:
    • The members in its own declaration
    • The members of the base class

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