Questions tagged [inheritance]
One of the four pillars of object-oriented programming (OOP), inheritance establishes a "is-a" relationship between objects. For example, a "Cat" object can be treated in code as any other "Animal" object because a "Cat" is-a "Animal".
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Implementing safe custom exception [closed]
I was trying to come up with some design to subclass built-in exceptions. For simplest case I used something like this: ...
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Parsing SFV files to extract and store the hashes
Similar to the class for the RAR file, now a class to extract and store the hashes from SFV files. Though this was considerably easier, there has been some code reorganisation: there is now an ...
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ostream that counts and discards the characters written to it
The code below implements a class, CountingOStream, whose job is to count the number of characters written to it while also discarding those characters and ...
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Classes for Config and logical operators
I have a spring cloud gateway application with this yml structure for request validation: ...
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"Better" enumeration for C#
I've been looking to have "smarter" or "better" enum functionality in C#. There are a few GitHub/NuGet projects out there, but they seem to target newer versions of .NET and I ...
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Python3 currency abstract class (without the permission to be instantiated directly)
I'm a newbie python developer who accidentally studied the concept of Abstract classes and I found it pretty much helpful to implement due to the SOLID principles. At the very moment of testing and ...
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Python 3.10+: an exploration of meta classes and subclasses through the lens of metric (SI) prefixes with subclass-able units and changeable bases
Problem Statement From the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Office of Weights and Measures, one can find a handy list of all the metric prefixes: e.g. Purpose Name Symbol Factor Name ...
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Calling the base method from overriden method to add some functionality
I have a small Linked list program which I created for just brushing up the concepts. Following is my Node class ...
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Extend native `Array` instances
I need/want to extend created array instance, to add extra methods that i see as useful. class.labels.js ...
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Abstract base class for binary serialization
Ensuring that some logic is always being run before the user's overriding methods. I'm writing a library and I have some abstract classes that can be binary serialized (and users can subclass them and ...
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Statically allocated buffer using templates
I want to have some classes that would contain arrays of different sizes. I want this to be statically allocated because it is intended for an embedded system. The only good solution I can think of is ...
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Reversing a type converter with minimal redundancies
The objective is to implement the reversed version of StringToDoubleConverter but without writing too many redundancies. I love DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) design ...
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Class that counts its instances
I'd love some feedback on the C++ base class shown below. It's basically a toy problem for a fake video game where the monsters that you have to avoid will all be sub-classed from the class shown ...
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A Python base class for a family of Postgres server manager classes
I'm working on a repo the purpose of which is to create and manage a local PostGIS server. (PostGIS is a bit niche, but it boils down to a few extra spatial data types and built-in SQL function. With ...
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