Summary

In this chapter, we continued our exploration of topics in OOP, picking up from where we left off in the previous chapter. The following topics were discussed in this chapter:

• We explained how inheritance works and looked at the two approaches that we can use to implement inheritance in C.
• The first approach allows direct access to all the private attributes of the parent class, but the second approach has a more conservative approach, hiding the private attributes of the parent class.
• We compared these approaches, and we saw that each of them can be suitable in some use cases.
• Polymorphism was the next topic that we explored. To put it simply, it allows us to have different versions of the same behavior and invoke the correct behavior using the public API of an abstract supertype.
• We saw how to write polymorphic code in C and saw how function pointers contribute to choosing the correct version of a particular behavior at runtime.

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