If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?

Re:If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? by sameoldtune on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:50PM (#40005482)

You’re describing the strategy pattern, which is probably one of the most practical coding design patterns. Ex: each chess AI difficulty gets its own class, which all extend a common interface.

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Re:If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? by krapht on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:44PM (#40006030)

I still find it funny that somehow the idea of runtime function dispatch via function pointer is called the "strategy" pattern.

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Re:If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? by sameoldtune on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:19PM (#40007396)

Hey I didn’t name it!

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