Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Inheritance: Not a Tool for Every Situation   A very cool post from Phil Weber.  The cool thing about it for me is that Phil discovered this from his experience in the real world.  In my case, I discovered it from reading “Design Patterns Explained” and then going back to the GOF book.  I think Naïve object-oriented design practitioners (my former self included) tend to view inheritance as the only component of object-oriented design.  It’s a sign of design maturity to use approaches appropriate to the situation (from a palette that contains more than one).  It also leads to more robust systems. 10:39:32 PM    comment []