Abstraction
Abstraction
The ability of a program to ignore the details of an object’s (sub)class and work at a more generic level when appropriate is known as abstraction. For example, “Lassie” the Dog may be treated as a Dog much of the time, but when appropriate she is abstracted to the level of Canidae (superclass of Dog) or Carnivora (superclass of Canidae), and so on.
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