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Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense
There are three different types of inheritance going on. Ontological inheritance is about specialisation: this thing is a specific variety of that thing (a football is a sphere and it has this radius) Abstract data type inheritance is about substitution: this thing behaves in all the ways that thing does and has this…
- Points
- 416
- HN comments
- 246
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 3 commenters
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2018 | Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense by signa11 | 416 | 246 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from May 2019 to Jan 2025.
Most recent:
- Fannon · Jan 22, 2025
- mumblemumble · Nov 7, 2021
- dpc_pw · Sep 3, 2020
- Fannon · May 9, 2019
