alt Hacker NewsInheritance is often used as an enabler for polymorphism in languages that don't support it in any other way.
Somehow, it leaked out and convinced everyone that it is a good thing on its own.
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goatlover • last Wednesday at 8:11 AM
Also encapsulation and code reuse. Message passing if you go by the guy who coined the term.
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There are two types of inheritance:
- interface/API based -- this is supported in modern languages via interfaces, traits, etc.
- implementation/code based -- modern languages tend to only support single inheritance; they tend to also support default method implementations on the interfaces/traits