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  Description
 
    The keyword INHERITED allows access to an overridden method in a
    parent object. In a hierarchy of objects, a parent and child object
    may contain methods with the same name. In this case, the method in
    the child must be qualified with the OVERRIDE keyword. With
    OVERRIDE in effect, the run-time system directs messages to the
    child's method, not to the parent's overridden method.
 
    If access to the parent's method is needed, qualify a message with
    INHERITED. When the run-time system encounters a message qualified
    with INHERITED, it ignores the child's method and sends the
    message to the parent's method.
 
  See also:  OBJECT, OVERRIDE