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- In C++, you can write code that uses objects of different classes
- in an inheritance hierarchy as though they were objects of the
- same type. In particular, a single function call can be applied
- to objects of different classes and can perform different
- operations for objects of different classes. The client code can
- manipulate an object without knowing its exact type and without
- knowing about the internals of the class hierarchy.
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