Implementing inheritance Let’s image what we want to create with this hierarchy using JavaScript: First of all, we can create ClassA easily.

This paper presents an empirical validation of two inheritance-based metrics: Average Understandability (AU) and Average Modifiability (AM), for the estimation of the modifiability of object-oriented ...

Introduction In this lecture we will begin discussing direct relationships among classes (including generalizing the relationship the Object class has to all other classes). We will discus subclasses ...

Ruby will be our first example of linking different objects together in a hierarchy. This process is called "inheritance" and the result is what we mean when we say an object "inherits" behavior from ...

An object constructed from a subclass contains all the fields that the subclass defines, and all the fields that are contained in its superclass (and the superclass of the superclass, etc. all the way ...