Differential inheritance
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Differential inheritance is a common inheritance model used by prototype-based programming languages such as JavaScript, Io and NewtonScript. It operates on the principle that most objects are derived from other, more general objects, and only differ in a few small aspects; while usually maintaining a list of pointers internally to other objects which the object differs from.
See also
External links
- Differential inheritance in JavaScript at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-09-29) from MDN Web Docs
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