>>>In fact you never use a base class if you can help it. You inherit not cut and paste if you want to change/modify functionality.
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>>This seems contradictory. Can you explain?
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>I don't think Bernard meant you should never use base classes. I think he meant if you want to change the functionality you should inherit rather than cut and paste. (Well, duh).

That's exactly it. Better than I could put it.