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13 Inheritance and Mixins

Knowing when to use inheritance is even more important than knowing how. The technique is extraordinarily useful for some situations but fantastically ill-suited for most others, making it one of the more controversial topics in object-oriented programming. Syntactically, inheritance is simple to implement. Logistically, the issues surrounding it are so intricate and nuanced that it deserves a chapter of its own.

Theory Recap: Inheritance

Inheritance allows you to write classes that share common code, and often, a common interface. To understand how it works, recall my blueprint (class) analogy for building ...