Inheritance in Object Oriented Programming:

Inheritance in Object Oriented Programming:

Inheritance is the process of creating new classes from an existing class. The existing class is known as the base class and the newly created class is called a derived class. The derived classes inherit the properties of base classes.

If the derived class inherits from a single parent, the inheritance is said to be single inheritance. Multiple inheritances are the process of creating a new class from more than one base classes. Inheritance can be viewed as a hierarchical structure where the base class is at root shown with its derived classes at different levels.

class shape

{

……………

};

class circle: public shape

{

………….

};

class rectangle : public shape

{

…………….

};

Class square : public rectangle

{

………………

}; 

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Mukesh Rajput