Chapter 9. Inheritance

In This Chapter

• Derived Class and Base Class 373

• Derived Class Constructors 380

• Overriding Member Functions 382

• Which Function Is Used? 383

• Inheritance in the English Distance Class 384

• Class Hierarchies 388

• Inheritance and Graphics Shapes 393

• Public and Private Inheritance 396

• Levels of Inheritance 399

• Multiple Inheritance 403

• private Derivation in EMPMULT 409

• Ambiguity in Multiple Inheritance 413

• Aggregation: Classes Within Classes 414

• Inheritance and Program Development 420

Inheritance is probably the most powerful feature of object-oriented programming, after classes themselves. Inheritance is the process of creating new classes, called derived classes, from existing or base classes. The ...

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