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  • Subject: Re: Object inheritance question...
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:22:13 +0100

Brennan Young wrote:

>Typically class B inherits class A's properties and methods because
>objects of class B are intended to resemble objects of class A in some
>way

The word you really want is 'specialization', not 'resemble' - a subclass is a specialization of its parent class. e.g. In Finder, 'folder' and 'disk' are specialized kinds of 'container', which in turn is a specialized kind of 'item'.

HTH

has
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