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Inheritance and the Component Namespace
A subclass contains all components of all its superclasses. Only the
public and the protected components are visible. This is why all public
and protected components of an inheritance tree are located in a single
namespace and must have unique names. Private components, on the other
hand, must only be named uniquely within a class.
When methods are redefined , the
newly implemented method obscures the identically named method of the
superclass. As soon as the method is redefined, it replaces the old
method to ensure that the name remains unique. The
pseudo reference
super- can be used in
subclasses to access a method of the direct superclass which is hidden
as a result of a redefinition.
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