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What is inheritance in object-oriented programming?
What is inheritance in object-oriented programming?
- The process of creating new classes without any connection to existing ones
- The mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object or class, retaining similar implementation (correct)
- The process of combining multiple classes into a single class
- The mechanism of creating independent classes with no relation to each other
What does a 'child object' acquire from a 'parent object' through inheritance?
What does a 'child object' acquire from a 'parent object' through inheritance?
- Only the behaviors of the parent object
- None of the properties and behaviors
- Only the properties of the parent object
- All the properties and behaviors, except for constructors, destructors, overloaded operators, and friend functions of the base class (correct)
What does inheritance allow programmers to do?
What does inheritance allow programmers to do?
- Create classes without any implementation, behaviors, or code reuse
- Create classes that are completely independent of existing classes
- Create classes built upon existing classes, specify a new implementation while maintaining the same behaviors, and reuse code (correct)
- Only create new classes with no relation to existing ones
What is the exception for properties and behaviors acquired by a 'child object' through inheritance?
What is the exception for properties and behaviors acquired by a 'child object' through inheritance?
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What kind of hierarchy does forming new classes from existing ones create?
What kind of hierarchy does forming new classes from existing ones create?
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