Virtual inheritance
Have you ever played with Legos? You know how you can build things by snapping different pieces together? Well, think of a computer program as a bunch of Legos that have been put together to do something.
Sometimes, when building programs, we have different Legos that do similar things. We don't want to rebuild the same thing over and over again, so we use something called inheritance.
Inheritance lets us make a new Lego by combining two Legos we already have. We can tell the new Lego to do everything the two old Legos can do.
Now, sometimes we have a big Lego that does a lot of things, but we only want to use one specific part of it. This is where virtual inheritance comes in.
Virtual inheritance lets us build a new Lego that only uses part of the big Lego, without copying everything from it. This makes our program smaller and easier to manage.
It's like taking apart your big Lego creation and just using the one piece you need to build something new, without putting everything back together again.
Sometimes, when building programs, we have different Legos that do similar things. We don't want to rebuild the same thing over and over again, so we use something called inheritance.
Inheritance lets us make a new Lego by combining two Legos we already have. We can tell the new Lego to do everything the two old Legos can do.
Now, sometimes we have a big Lego that does a lot of things, but we only want to use one specific part of it. This is where virtual inheritance comes in.
Virtual inheritance lets us build a new Lego that only uses part of the big Lego, without copying everything from it. This makes our program smaller and easier to manage.
It's like taking apart your big Lego creation and just using the one piece you need to build something new, without putting everything back together again.