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\name{SClassExtension-class}
\docType{class}
\alias{SClassExtension-class}
\title{Class to Represent Inheritance (Extension) Relations }
\description{  An object from this class represents a single ``is''
  relationship; lists of these objects are used to represent all the
  extensions (superclasses) and subclasses for a given class.  The
  object contains information about how the relation is defined and
  methods to coerce, test, and replace correspondingly. }
\section{Objects from the Class}{
Objects from this class are generated by \code{\link{setIs}}, both
from direct calls 
}
\section{Slots}{
  \describe{
    \item{\code{superClass}:}{The name of the class being extended. }
    \item{\code{package}:}{The package to which that class belongs. }
    \item{\code{coerce}:}{A function to carry out the as() computation
    implied by the relation.  Note that these functions should
    \emph{not} be used directly.  They only deal with the
    \code{strict=TRUE} calls to the \code{\link{as}} function, with
    the full method constructed from this mechanically. }
    \item{\code{test}:}{The function that would test whether the
    relation holds.  Except for explicitly specified \code{test}
    arguments to \code{\link{setIs}}, this function is trivial. }
    \item{\code{replace}:}{The method used to implement \code{as(x,
    Class) <- value}.}
    \item{\code{simple}:}{A \code{"logical"} flag, \code{TRUE} if this
    is a simple relation, either because one class is contained in the
    definition of another, or because a class has been explicitly
    stated to extend a virtual class.  For simple extensions, the
    three methods are generated automatically.}
    \item{\code{by}:}{If this relation has been constructed
    transitively, the first intermediate class from the subclass. }
    \item{\code{dataPart}:}{A \code{"logical"} flag, \code{TRUE} if
  the extended class is in fact the data part of the subclass.  In
  this case the extended class is a basic class (i.e., a type). }
  }
}

\section{Methods}{
No methods defined with class "SClassExtension" in the signature.
}
\seealso{ \code{\link{is}}, \code{\link{as}}
 and \code{\link{classRepresentation-class}}. }

\keyword{classes}