Chapter 12Dealing with Inheritance
In this final chapter, I’ll turn to one of the best known features of object-oriented programming: inheritance. Like any powerful mechanism, it is both very useful and easy to misuse, and it’s often hard to see the misuse until it’s in the rear-view mirror.
Often, features need to move up or down the inheritance hierarchy. Several refactorings deal with that: Pull Up Method (350), Pull Up Field (353), Pull Up Constructor Body (355), Push Down Method (359), and Push Down Field (361). I can add and remove classes from the hierarchy with Extract Superclass (375), Remove Subclass (369), and Collapse Hierarchy (380). I may want to add a subclass to replace a field that I’m using to trigger different behavior based ...
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