Use of Methods Defined in Parent

• If you call a method in a class that was defined in some parent, the compiler has a simple algorithm to find the definition: it searches up the parent/child hierarchy.

Class:

method A

Definition of method

is given in parent

Class:

Class:

Class:

Class:

Object2

Object1

Object1 creates object2

and calls object2.A

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