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0 pointsbreadwinner2y ago0 comments

Not true. Exception hierarchies solve this problem.

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Nope. Exception hierarchies don't even come close to solving that problem because the superclass or interface author usually didn't anticipate your need and define the method signature in a way that would be useful with exception hierarchies.

breadwinnerOP2y ago

So you're inheriting a class not within your own application, but written outside of your application. Composition might work better in this case.

nradov2y ago

Nope. Composition doesn't help when you have to implement an existing interface in order to make some API work.

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breadwinnerOP2y ago

So you're inheriting a class not within your own application, but written outside of your application. Composition might work better in this case.

nradov2y ago

Nope. Composition doesn't help when you have to implement an existing interface in order to make some API work.

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