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6.7 Pike inherit compared to other languages

Many other languages assign special meaning to inherit. Most common is the notion that if you inherit a class, it means that your class should obey the same rules as the inherited class. In Pike, this is not necessarily so. You may wish to use inherit in Pike like this, but you can just as well choose not to. This may confuse some programmers with previous experience in object oriented programming.

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