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Superclass

Updated: 12/31/2022 by Computer Hope

In object-oriented programming, a class from which other classes inherit code is called a superclass. Furthermore, the class that inherits the code is called a subclass of that superclass. Typically, a subclass inherits the instance variables and member functions of its superclass.

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