Chapter 7: Poly-what-ism?
In This Chapter
Deciding whether to hide or override a base class method (so many choices!)
Building abstract classes — are you for real?
Declaring a method and the class that contains it to be abstract
Using ToString, the class business card
Sealing a class from being subclassed
In inheritance, one class “adopts” the members of another. Thus I can create a class SavingsAccount that inherits data members such as account id and methods such as Deposit() from a base class BankAccount. That’s useful, but this definition of inheritance isn’t sufficient to mimic what’s going on out there in the business world.
See Chapter 6 of this minibook if you don’t know (or remember) much about class inheritance.
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