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0 pointsnoblethrasher11y ago0 comments

Inheritance is usually a mess because people use it to model objects when they should instead be modeling types: a triangle is not a shape, but a Shape is a sum type of Circle, Square, Triangle, etc.

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NateDad11y ago

Shape is definitely much more accurately modeled as an interface than a base class, since it has no functionality on its own.

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0 pointsnoblethrasher11y ago0 comments

Inheritance is usually a mess because people use it to model objects when they should instead be modeling types: a triangle is not a shape, but a Shape is a sum type of Circle, Square, Triangle, etc.

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NateDad11y ago

Shape is definitely much more accurately modeled as an interface than a base class, since it has no functionality on its own.

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