Chapter 3. Inheritance
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Classes are often related to other classes. The two popular methods of relating classes are containment, also known as composition, and inheritance. Containment is a "has a" relationship, where a class contains or embeds another class. For example, a timestamp contains time. Inheritance is based on the "is a" relationship, in which one class is a type of another class. For example, an hourly employee is a kind of employee.
Inheritance involves a base type and a derived type, where a derived type is a kind ...
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