Re: Objects and Inheritance

From: Jonathan Gennick <gennick_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 01:46:11 GMT
Message-ID: <6gmi1s$9kk@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:34:06 +0800, Grant Lee <leegr_at_cs.curtin.edu.au> wrote:

>Can anyone tell me if Oracle 8 supports the concept of inheritance or
>specialisation. For instance, if I have an object type called Employee,
>can I create a new type called Managers which inherits the attributes
>and methods from employee, plus adds some new ones.

No. Oracle skimped a bit on the implementation of objects. There is no inheritance, no user defined constructor or destructor, and no private methods or variables.

regards,

Jonathan Received on Fri Apr 10 1998 - 20:46:11 CDT