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Inheritance

Inheritance lets you create new classes that reuse, extend, and modify behavior defined in existing classes. Like how a sedan and a truck both inherit the basic properties of a vehicle (engine, wheels, steering) but add their own specializations, inheritance establishes an 'is-a' relationship that reduces code duplication while enabling specialization.

Use Cases

  • Building a hierarchy of UI components that share common rendering logic
  • Creating specialized payment processors that extend a base payment handler
  • Modeling game entities where all characters share movement but differ in abilities
  • Extending framework base classes to customize behavior (e.g., custom error types)

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