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What is inheritance in object-oriented programming?
What is inheritance in object-oriented programming?
- Creating new classes without any relationship to existing ones
- Specifying a new implementation without maintaining the same behaviors
- Copying all properties and behaviors from one class to another
- Basing an object or class upon another object or class, retaining similar implementation (correct)
What does inheritance allow programmers to do?
What does inheritance allow programmers to do?
- Restrict the extension of original software via public classes and interfaces
- Override all properties and behaviors of the base class
- Create completely independent classes with no relation to existing ones
- Create classes built upon existing classes and reuse code (correct)
What does a child object acquire from a parent object through inheritance?
What does a child object acquire from a parent object through inheritance?
- All properties and behaviors, except constructors, destructors, overloaded operators, and friend functions (correct)
- Only properties, not behaviors
- Only constructors and destructors
- Nothing, child objects do not acquire anything from parent objects
What is the exception for a child object acquiring properties and behaviors from a parent object?
What is the exception for a child object acquiring properties and behaviors from a parent object?
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What is the purpose of forming a hierarchy of classes through inheritance?
What is the purpose of forming a hierarchy of classes through inheritance?
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