inheritance

concept in object-oriented programming
Intangible concept Q212542
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inheritance

Summary

inheritance is a concept[1]. inheritance draws 199 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #205 of 912).[2]

Key Facts

  • inheritance's instance of is recorded as concept[3].
  • inheritance's GND ID is recorded as 4277478-0[4].
  • inheritance's subclass of is recorded as relation[5].
  • inheritance's part of is recorded as object-oriented programming[6].
  • inheritance's has use is recorded as code reuse[7].
  • inheritance's has use is recorded as subtyping[8].
  • inheritance's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07s24z[9].
  • inheritance's topic's main category is recorded as Q7882033[10].
  • inheritance's facet of is recorded as object-oriented programming[11].
  • inheritance's partially coincident with is recorded as subtyping[12].
  • inheritance's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/inheritance[13].
  • inheritance's different from is recorded as Q9248364[14].
  • inheritance's schematic is recorded as Method overriding in subclass.svg[15].
  • inheritance's schematic is recorded as Herencia UML.PNG[16].
  • inheritance's schematic is recorded as Heritage informatique.svg[17].
  • inheritance's schematic is recorded as InheritancePgmUML.svg[18].
  • inheritance's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 상속(프로그래밍)[19].
  • inheritance's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/inheritance-hierarchy[20].
  • inheritance's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/inheritance-tree[21].
  • inheritance's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 546652[22].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for inheritance include composition over inheritance[23], a software design pattern[24].

Why It Matters

inheritance draws 199 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #205 of 912).[2] inheritance has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] inheritance is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for inheritance include composition over inheritance[23], a software design pattern[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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