Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

Embedded C developers shy away from C++ out of concern for performance. The class construct is one of their main concerns. My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++: Classes explored whether ...

Extension and specialization inheritance are two viewpoints of inheritance that are usually at odds; i.e., to fully support extension inheritance one should sacrifice specialization inheritance and ...

The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods, and ...