1.8.8. Inheritance
A new class of objects can be created quickly and conveniently by inheritance—the new class absorbs the characteristics of an existing one, possibly customizing them and adding unique characteristics of its own. In our car analogy, a “convertible” certainly is an object of the more general class “automobile,” but more specifically, the roof can be raised or lowered.
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