Chapter 17

Question 1

object-oriented language

Answer 1

a language that provides features, such as user-defined classes and method syntax, that facilitate object-oriented programming

Question 2

object-oriented programming

Answer 2

a style of programming in which data and the operations that manipulate it are organized into classes and methods

Question 3

method

Answer 3

a function that is defined inside a class definition and is invoked on instances of that class.

Question 4

subject

Answer 4

the object a method is invoked on.

Question 5

operator overloading

Answer 5

changing the behavior of an operator like + so it works with a user-defined type.

Question 6

type-based dispatch

Answer 6

a programming pattern that checks the type of an operand and invokes different functions for different types.

Question 7

polymorphic

Answer 7

pertaining to a function that can work with more than one type.

Question 8

information hiding

Answer 8

the principle that the interface provided by an object should not depend on its implementation, in particular the representation of its attributes.