John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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>>>>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).
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>He says don't use a base class, but to inherit. What will you inherit from? Unless I am missing something that doesn't make sense at all.
What I think he meant is: "don't use a base class directly by adding code to it. Inherit from it and place your code in that subclass".
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