On 14/06/2007, at 4:18 PM, Alex Harui wrote:
Anyway, if you’re really desperate, just copy the source, rename
the class and do what you need.
In response to this my manager forwarded me this link on abject
programming, and referenced me particularly to the section on
inheritance.
http://typicalprogrammer.com/programming/abject-oriented/
Inheritance:
Inheritance is a way to retain features of old code in newer code.
The programmer derives from an existing function or block of code by
making a copy of the code, then making changes to the copy. The
derived code is often specialized by adding features not implemented
in the original. In this way the old code is retained but the new
code inherits from it.
He also said to say thankyou for the 5000+ lines of code we had to
add to our application in order to set checkPolicyFile to true when
we wanted to make use of VideoDisplay (pardon me if there was another
to achieve this, but there are other cases as well).
regards,
Bjorn
