Heritage
Programming in C++ language - Concepts
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Heritage
Programming in C++ language - Concepts

Author : Claude DELANNOY

Publication date: September 10, 2003 | Lire en français

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6. Heritage

The concept makes it possible to define a new "derived" class B from an existing "base" class A. To do this, proceed as follows:

Example

class B : public A // or private A or protected A

{ // define additional members // (data or functions)

// or redefinition of existing members in A // (data or functions)

} ;

The process can be repeated at will: from B, we can very easily derive a new class C, from C a new class D, and so on.

6.1 Redefining a member function

The derived class can redefine a member function of the base class by providing a member function with...

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