Inheritance
Inheritance was defined in Chapter 1 as a system in which child classes inherit attributes and behaviors from a parent class. However, there is more to inheritance, and in this chapter we explore inheritance in greater detail.
Chapter 1 states that you can determine an inheritance relationship by following a simple rule: If you can say that Class B is a Class A, then this relationship is a good candidate for inheritance.
Let’s revisit the mammal example used in Chapter 1. Let’s consider a Dog class. A dog has several behaviors that make it distinctly a dog, as opposed to a cat. For this example, let’s specify two: A dog ...
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