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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by golergka on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:22AM (#17441377)
In my personal experience, overriding non-abstract methods is definetly the worst feature of OOP. Too often comlpex codebases have multi-level overrides, some call base method in the beginning, some call it in the end, and some none at all - and almost always this leads to incoherent contracts and behaviour.

Interface-only inheritance and composition instead of inheritance (with components or otherwise) is almost always simpler and thus more error-proof. Even if sometimes you have to repeat yourself a couple times, decrease in mental complexity is definetly worth it.

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