Take pity, Rox < s >!

I'm fascinated by your post. But I would be helped a bit by an example. Do you have a simple one that wouldn't be too big a pain to post? I follow the gist, I believe. If I do, then it is very similar to my approach. I always thought is was rather remedial and that everybody else always knew their superclasses < g >.

I especially agree that if something doesn't seem very reusable, then it's got way, way, way too much *stuff* in it.

Did you read the article "ECM in Color" that DF pointed out a while back (www.oi.com/ecm.htm is the link)?


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>C) Build a new abstract superclass with the stuff I want to reuse,
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>"Favor object composition over class inheritance".
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>- what I initially thought of as a generic superclass ends up not being so abstract after all and I'm left with nice simple generic ( and often concrete) class with a plug-in aggregate to fit my specific need at runtime flexibility.