Inheritance Relationships for Disciplined Software Construction
Inheritance Relationships for Disciplined Software Construction By Tracy A. Gardner PhD (auth.)
2002 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1447110927 | PDF | 7 MB
2002 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1447110927 | PDF | 7 MB
Object-oriented inheritance has been in widespread use for a decade, and it is now realised that although inheritance is a powerful modelling tool with many associated advantages, its benefits are not automatically conferred on systems that simply use it.This book introduces a model of inheritance based around five fundamental inheritance relationships. Each relationship has a clear conceptual basis, representing a fundamental, specialised use of inheritance. The resulting model replaces a confused notion of inheritance with five distinct conceptual relationships supporting more precise modelling of systems and capturing the semantic intent of each use of inheritance within a system.