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In Chapter 5 we saw that a subclass inherits code from its base class. However, code reuse is not the primary goal of inheritance. More important is the fact that a subclass inherits the interface, i.e., that it understands the same messages as its base class, although it may implement them differently. The compatibility between a subclass and its base class makes it possible for a variable at run time to contain objects of various types that react differently to a message.
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Mössenböck, H. (1995). Dynamic Binding. In: Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79898-6_6
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