9.7 Designing with Composition vs. Inheritance
There’s much discussion in the software engineering community about the relative merits of composition and inheritance. Each has its own place, but inheritance is often overused and composition is more appropriate in many cases. A mix of composition and inheritance often is a reasonable design approach, as you’ll see in Exercise 9.16.1
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