Inheritance
OOPs revolve around the four concepts:
1. Encapsulation
2. Polymorphism
3. Abstraction
4. Inheritance
In OOPs, these concepts are implemented through a class definition and achieved
through the object creation process, programmatically.
Here we will discuss Inheritance briefly:
-- Inheritance is the mechanism to
organize and structure the software program in an hierarchical manner.
-- Through inheritance a new
class can inherit some existing behavior and states of another class. This
promotes the concept of code reusability.
-- Inheritance saves work as the
already existing class allows the new class to inherit all the properties of
the old general class and as a programmer you only require the new
features.
-- Inheritance allows various objects
to share certain things common by allowing to define a general class and
later to organize some other classes simply adding some details with the old
class definition.
-- Inheritance allows a
better data analysis, reduction in development time, less coding and better
performance.
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