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Understanding Typescript's views on inheritance
I have been struggling to understand the reasons why typescript developers choose the way they implemented inheritance.
What I would expect from any language supporting inheritance is these order of ...
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Is coupling a good thing or bad thing when I'm developing standalone modules in a framework?
Encapsulation is a mechanism of wrapping the data (variables) and code acting on the data (methods) together as a single unit. Client code is expected to inherit from system-supplied classes and then ...
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Data duplication, can it be an unavoidable practice in this example?
Say I have different employees of type Employee stored in a list inside a class SubCase.
public class SubCase{
protected ArrayList<Employee> employees;
...
}
SubCase represents a part ...
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Refactor using CTI or create new Entities
I'm currently developing on a rather large e-commerce application that handles multiple different business-fields. Like every e-commerce application we have a Concept called an Order which has one or ...
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When should I extend a Java Swing class?
My current understanding of Inheritance implementation is that one should only extend a class if an IS-A relation is present. If the parent class can further have more specific child types with ...
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The Better Parts and Delegation: Is Crockford Too Extreme?
Douglas Crockford has recently been giving a talk called The Better Parts. The gist of the talk is that JavaScript developers should actually avoid a superset of the The Bad Parts, which now includes ...
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Is creating subclasses for specific instances a bad practice?
Consider the following design
public class Person
{
public virtual string Name { get; }
public Person (string name)
{
this.Name = name;
}
}
public class Karl : Person
{
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When is it suitable to use inheritance [duplicate]
I recently had a small "argument" about inheritance with a friend. I think people overuse it a lot. Intuition tells me that that the only good reason for class inheritance is polymorphism - when there ...
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OO Software Architecture - base class that everything inherits from. Bad/good idea?
I am reviewing a proposed OO software architecture that looks like this:
Base
Foo
Something
Bar
SomethingElse
Where Base is a static class.
My immediate thought was that every object in any class ...
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