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In this chapter we look more deeply at the topic of inheritance, the basic concepts of which were covered in Chap. 3. Inheritance can be done in two ways: by subclassing existing classes and by implementing interfaces. The major goal of inheritance is reuse, but the two approaches achieve this goal in different ways.
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In private inheritance, all the non-private superclass attributes become private attributes of the subclass.
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Since Java does not support multiple inheritance in this form, this code does not conform to Java syntax.
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We would like to remind the reader that the Java-like code we have given below is not valid in the Java language.
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Dathan, B., Ramnath, S. (2015). Exploring Inheritance. In: Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24280-4_9
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