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The Flaws of Inheritance

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CodeAesthetic explains the tradeoffs between inheritance and composition in object-oriented programming.

Let's discuss the tradeoffs between Inheritance and Composition Access to code examples, discord, song names and more at patreon.com/codeaesthetic Introduction Inheritance Composition Abstracting with Inheritance Abstracting with Interfaces When to use Inheritance

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What people say. Recommended as a clear explanation of why composition is often preferred over inheritance.

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I found the Visitor Pattern very helpful for this. You can leave data/state objects untouched and have the logic independent of the data. One benefit is also that you don’t have such a tight coupling between the data and the functionality. So you can also use one visitor for different data objects. On the other hand always remember to use composition over inheritance
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This is typical inheritance vs composition problem. In some cases, it doesn't matter which one you choose. In more complex cases, composition (interfaces) is better. Here is an interesting video from CodeAesthetic on this subject: link to this video
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