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Inheritance vs Polymorphism.

written 2.9 years ago by Krishna_Agrawal • 2.7k

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Differentiate between Inheritance and Polymorphism.

object oriented programming

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written 2.9 years ago by DevarenjiniP • 3.2k

BASIS FOR COMPARISON	INHERITANCE	POLYMORPHISM
BASIC	Inheritance is creating a new class using the properties of  the already existing class.	Polymorphism is basically a common interface for multiple form.
IMPLEMENTATION	It is implemented on classes.	It is basically implemented on functions/methods.
USE	To support the concept of reusability in OOP and reduces the length of code.	Allows object to decide  which form of the function to be invoked when,at compile time as well as run time.
FORMS	It may be a single inheritance, multiple inheritance,multilevel inheritance,hiearchical inheritance and hybrid inheritance.	It may be a compile time  polymorphism or run-time polymorphism.
EXAMPLE	The class 'table' can inherit the feature of the class 'furniture',as a 'table' is a 'furniture'.	The class 'study-table' can also  have function 'set_color()' and a class 'Dining_table' can also have function 'set_color()' so, which form of the set_color() function to invoke can be decided at both compile time, and run time.

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