On 5 March 2013 22:06, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 05-03-2013, at 2:01 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> P.S.: If XMLOrderedList is a subclass of OrderedCollection, then it's just
>>> plain wrong IMHO. Creating subclasses of collections in external packages is
>>> bad practice.
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>> Hi Levente, I was just curious why that is bad practice.
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> I am also curious why you think that. Making subclasses is pretty much the essence of programming.

Oh, the horror! Surely you mean _composition_, which subsumes diry,
icky inheritance. ("Dirty, icky" because to understand one class you
need to understand all its ancestors and all its descendants.)

frank

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