Inheritance

• Define Employee class

• Have "special types of" employees

  • Consultant IsA Employee
  • Contractor IsA Employee
  • Manager IsA Employee
  • Executive IsA Manager
    • Executive IsA Employee

• Why do we need subtypes?

  • specialisation
  • code reuse
  • polymorphism

employee

consultant

contractor

manager

executive

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