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What is inheritance in object-oriented programming?
What is inheritance in object-oriented programming?
- Mechanism of defining new classes without using existing ones
- Mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object or class, retaining similar implementation (correct)
- Mechanism of encapsulating data and methods within a class
- Mechanism of creating new objects from existing ones
What is one of the main purposes of inheritance in object-oriented programming?
What is one of the main purposes of inheritance in object-oriented programming?
- To reuse code and create classes built upon existing classes (correct)
- To enforce encapsulation of data within classes
- To restrict access to certain properties and behaviors
- To eliminate the need for creating new classes
What does a 'child object' acquire from a 'parent object' in inheritance?
What does a 'child object' acquire from a 'parent object' in inheritance?
- Only properties but not behaviors
- All properties and behaviors, except constructors, destructors, overloaded operators, and friend functions (correct)
- Only behaviors but not properties
- Constructors, destructors, overloaded operators, and friend functions
What does inheritance allow programmers to do?
What does inheritance allow programmers to do?
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What does the relationship of objects or classes through inheritance give rise to?
What does the relationship of objects or classes through inheritance give rise to?
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