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Inheritance
ne of the major benefits of object-oriented programming is code reuse. Programmers develop lot of code over time. If this code can be reused, they can save time and effort in developing and testing a new project. In structured programming, if the code is arranged in appropriate independent functions, it can be reused in future applications. For object-oriented programming, the inheritance feature you’ll learn about helps achieve code reuse. In the previous chapter, you learned to define classes. In this chapter, you learn how ...
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