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A comment on Ask HN: How often do you use inheritance?.

Re:Ask HN: How often do you use inheritance? by itamarst on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:29PM (#14327112)
It's usually a bad idea, and often you have no choice because of library design.
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Re:Ask HN: How often do you use inheritance? by odonnellryan on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:42PM (#14327745)
Some APIs work really well with the pattern, but I've only used 2-3 that were "wow, that's really neat!"
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