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• Overriding and overloading

• Accessor, mutator and manager methods

• Constructors

• Destructor

• Abstract methods

• Example

• Reabstraction

• Class methods

• Special methods

• Static methods

• Copy-assignment operators

• Operator methods

• Member functions in C++

• Virtual functions

• See also

• Notes

• References

Method overriding and overloading are two of the most significant ways that a method differs from a conventional procedure or function call. Overriding refers to a subclass redefining the implementation of a method of its superclass. For example, findArea may be a method defined on a shape class,cite-ref-0-2-0[2] triangle, etc. would each define the appropriate formula to calculate their area. The idea is to look at objects as "black boxes" so that changes to the internals of the object can be made with minimal impact on the other objects that use it. This is known as encapsulation and is meant to make code easier to maintain and re-use.

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