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Name: Union Design Pattern: Inheritance and Polymorphism
ID: m11796
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Summary: The union design pattern is a structural pattern that depicts the inheritance relationship between a superclass and its subclasses. The superclass is an abstract representation of the union of all the subclasses. Due to this polymorphism, the subclasses can thus be used wherever the superclass is required.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: design patterns, OOP, object oriented programming, polymorphism, inheritance
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu), Dung Nguyen (dxnguyen@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu), Dung Nguyen (dxnguyen@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu), Dung Nguyen (dxnguyen@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.11 (history)
First publication date: Jan 20, 2004 10:46 am US/Central
Last revision to module: Jan 30, 2008 11:39 pm US/Central
Module XML: m11796_1.11.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.11 Jan 30, 2008 11:39 pm US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Fixed missing colspec in second table
Version: 1.10 Jul 2, 2007 6:32 pm GMT-5 by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Added middle section on problems with hoisting.
Version: 1.9 May 29, 2004 10:59 am GMT-5 by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Fix formatting problem
Version: 1.8 May 29, 2004 10:54 am GMT-5 by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Clarified Prob. 10
Version: 1.7 May 29, 2004 10:47 am GMT-5 by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Fixed type in Prob. #8 and clarified Prob. #11.
Version: 1.6 Jan 30, 2004 2:25 am US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
added more examples
Version: 1.5 Jan 28, 2004 2:52 pm US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
fixed typo in code
Version: 1.4 Jan 27, 2004 12:40 pm US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Added exercises on polymorphism
Version: 1.3 Jan 25, 2004 11:16 pm US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
Added comment on interfaces
Version: 1.2 Jan 21, 2004 9:47 am US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
added material on variant/invariant
Version: 1.1 Jan 20, 2004 11:06 pm US/Central by Stephen Wong
Changes: 
initial publication

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