Merits and demerits of inheritance

Answer 1

Inheritance has many merits, why it was implemented in the first place, it allows the reuse of code for similar classes, and it does an excellence job of organizing class relations. One "demerit" one might argue would be the fact that poorly written parent classes could be easily hacked into, thus gaining access to the parent class's internal methods simply by extending it.

The issues in the parent class would be passed on to the children. If the memory management or Thread management in the parent class is very poor, then the child class would inherit these features and its performance would be affected and would remain bad.

Answer 2

Merits of inheritance include the preservation of family wealth, passing down of values and traditions, and potential financial security for descendants. However, demerits can include inequality among heirs, potential conflicts over assets, and perpetuation of wealth disparities.

Answer 3

A merit is a quality of being good. Demerit is a word used to describe a feature or fact about something.