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Inheritance allows a class to acquire the members of another class. In the example below, Square inherits from Rectangle. This is specified after the class name by using a colon followed by the public keyword, and the name of the class to inherit from. Rectangle then becomes a base class of Square, which in turn becomes a derived class of Rectangle. In addition to its own members, Square gains all accessible members in Rectangle, except for its constructors and destructor.
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© 2013 Mikael Olsson
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Olsson, M. (2013). Inheritance. In: C++ Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6278-7_14
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