Overriding Shared Members
Shared members cannot be overridden. This means that you can only use them as they have been inherited from the base class or provide a shadowing implementation for creating a new definition from scratch. For example, consider this simplified implementation of the Person
class, which exposes a shared Counter
property:
If you now create a Contact
class that inherits from Person
, you can use the Counter
property as previously implemented, or you can shadow the base definition as follows:
If you intend to provide an overloaded ...
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