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It is assumed that the reader is already familiar with standard object orientation concepts such as classes, objects/instances, inheritance/subclassing, generic functions and methods, encapsulation and polymorphism.
This section explains some of the less well known concepts and terminology that GOOPS uses, which are assumed by the following sections of the reference manual.