Inheritance is a powerful mechanism supported by object-oriented programming languages to facilitate modifications and extensions of reusable software components. This paper presents a taxonomy of the various purposes for which an inheritance mechanism can be used. While some uses of inheritance significantly enhance software reuse, some others are not as useful and in fact, may even be detrime...

Minangkabau Customary Inheritance Law, that heirlooms in customary provisions are passed on to maternal offspring (matrilineal), who adhere the collective or communal principle, namely common ownership. While Islamic inheritance adheres principle of individual, meaning each heir has right own it individually without being bound by others. The purpose this study is find out process resolving dis...

The coalgebraic view on classes and objects is elaborated to include inheritance. Inheritance in coalgebraic speciication (of classes) will be understood dually to parametrization in algebraic speciication. That is, inheritance involves restriction (specialization), where parametrization involves extension. And cofree constructions are \best" restrictions, like free constructions are \best" ext...

Most theoretical approaches to inheritance assume that parents are the key actors of bequest decisions. However, in a context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set collected at both ends of the migration link in Bolivia, we are able to show that migrant children significantly influence the way inheritance is distributed t...

glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is the most prevalent enzymopathy in mankind. it has sex-linked in­heritance. this enzyme exists in all cells.  g6pd deficiency increases the sensitivity of red blood cells to oxidative dam­age. g6pd deficiency was discovered in 1950 when some people suffered hemolytic anemia as a result of taking antimalar­ial drugs (primaquin). most people w...

This paper 1 introduces Guru, a prototype tool for restructuring inheritance hierarchies in Self, while preserving the behavior of objects. Guru reverse engineers from existing inheritance hierarchies. Unlike previous work, Guru handles re-sends, redeened methods and the restructuring of only part of a system. Furthermore, Guru handles dynamic and cyclical inheritance, which are more speciic to...

Two of the fundamental uses of generalization in object-oriented software development are the reusability of code and better structuring of the description of objects. Multiple inheritance is one of the important features of object-oriented methodologies which enables developers to combine concepts and increase the reusability of the resulting software. However, multiple inheritance is implemen...

Although spreadsheets can be argued to be the most widely-used visual programming languages (VPLs) today, most are very limited compared to other VPLs, supporting only a few built-in types and offering only primitive support for code reuse. The inheritance mechanisms of object-oriented programming might seem to offer help for the latter problem, but incorporating these mechanisms in a tradition...

DNA is not the sole medium by which parents transmit information to their offspring. Epigenetic inheritance, in particular, is based on the partial transmission of the cellular state of the parental cell to its descendants. Although the reality of epigenetic inheritance is now firmly established, whether it has an influence on the long term evolutionary process is still subject to debate. To ad...

Inheritance is the fundamental reuse mechanism in object-oriented programming languages; its most prominent variants are single inheritance, multiple inheritance, and mixin inheritance. In the first part of this paper, we identify and illustrate the conceptual and practical reusability problems that arise with these forms of inheritance. We then present a simple compositional model for structur...