Inheritance
Published Apr 19, 2021Updated Dec 14, 2022
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Inheritance is one of the most important principles of object-oriented programming (OOP). It allows for one class (child class) to inherit the fields and methods of another class (parent class).
An inherited class is also called a subclass of its superclass (parent class).
Inheritance is considered one of the four pillars of OOP, along with abstraction, and encapsulation, and polymorphism.
Example
// Parent Classclass Machine {// Machine class member}// Child Classclass Car extends Machine {// Car inherits traits from Machine// Additional Car class members, functions, etc.}
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