C# Programming - Inheritance - Discussion

Rahu: "It doesn't implement polymorphism. It just provides a way to implement polymorphism between methods".

The question says:

"Which of the following can be facilitated by the Inheritance mechanism?".

"4. Implement polymorphic behavior"

Facilitate means to assist, make easier or less difficult. Inheritance does assist the implementation of polymorphic behavior.

In the below example, animal could be an Elephant, a Lion or anything that inherits from the base class class Animal. All inherit the Eat method and thus can be used Polymorphically through the base class.

foreach(Animal animal in zoo)
{
animal.Eat(food);

...
}

Inheritance means you can implement the properties and methods of parent(Base) class into Child (derived) class.

And you can implement new functionality in child(derived) class as you want.

It is correct as inheritance is the mechanism of deriving a new class from the base class, thus we can excess the functionality of base class in derived class.

Yes, It's like a using already existing property from the parent class, add new property by child class which overrides the property too.

Inherit means getting the property off.

Base class -> derived class.

Derived class has the features of base class and as its own.

Because in inheritance, a derived class inherit the feature of base class and functionality also there is no concept of polymorphism.

Polymorphism is a concept that tells us how to change the behavior of a method not a pre defined method or keyword.

It doesn't implement polymorphism. It just provides a way to implement polymorphism between methods.

In Inheritance, derived class used the properties and methods defined in the Base class.

In Inheritance derived class used the properties and methods defined in the Base class.