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  TYPE
   <Class> = OBJECT │ OBJECT( <Parent-Class> )
      <Field List>
      <Methods>
      END;
 
  Description
 
    The keyword OBJECT declares one or more data structures and the
    procedures and functions manipulating them. An object is a
    user-defined type. Procedures and functions that manipulate the
    data structures and provide an interface to them are called
    methods.
 
    Objects provide total isolation of data structure information. An
    application never knows how the data it uses is stored, and it
    never knows how the services an object provides are implemented.
 
    This encapsulation feature allows the design of highly modular and
    easily maintainable application code. Also, through the property of
    inheritance, objects offer the reusability and amplification of
    existing code. A new object can not only inherit the properties
    of an existing object, but it can add to or modify the properties
    of that object.
 
  See also:  INHERITED, OVERRIDE