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Prepared By

Prashant Soni
Assistant Professor,UCER Naini,Allahabad

Object Oriented System Design


Unit 5 Lecture 2
Inheritance
C++ Inheritance
• In C++, inheritance is a process in which one object acquires
all the properties and behaviors of its parent object
automatically.
• In such way, you can reuse, extend or modify the attributes
and behaviors which are defined in other class.
• In C++, the class which inherits the members of another class
is called derived class and the class whose members are
inherited is called base class.
• The derived class is the specialized class for the base class.
Types Of Inheritance
C++ supports five types of inheritance:
• Single inheritance
• Multiple inheritance
• Hierarchical inheritance
• Multilevel inheritance
• Hybrid inheritance
Derived Classes
A Derived class is defined as the class derived from the
base class.
The Syntax of Derived class:
class derived_class_name :: visibility-
mode base_class_name
{
// body of the derived class.
}
derived_class_name: It is the name of the
derived class.
visibility mode: The visibility mode specifies
whether the features of the base class are
publicly inherited or privately inherited. It can be
public or private.
base_class_name: It is the name of the base class.
• When the base class is privately inherited by the
derived class, public members of the base class
becomes the private members of the derived class.
Therefore, the public members of the base class are not
accessible by the objects of the derived class only by
the member functions of the derived class.
• When the base class is publicly inherited by the derived
class, public members of the base class also become
the public members of the derived class. Therefore, the
public members of the base class are accessible by the
objects of the derived class as well as by the member
functions of the base class.
Note:
• In C++, the default mode of visibility is
private.
• The private members of the base class are
never inherited.

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