Re: inheriting from std::vector bad practice?
* Leigh Johnston:
* Alf P. Steinbach:
* Leigh Johnston:
The only time it is unwise to use public inheritance is if your class
invariant consists of more than just vector's invariant in which case
it might be possible to break your class's invariant by calling the
vector's member functions, but I don't believe this is the case in
your example (i.e. you are simply performing interface augmentation).
Sorry, that's bullshit. Proper design involves much more. It's
possible to disagree over what constitutes a good design and whether
something constitutes good design, but in this case it's about the
opposite, a technique that's almost universally recognized as Bad(TM),
so, no discussion.
[don't quote signatures, please, and please /trim/ your quoting]
Sorry but that's bullshit. Interface augmentation is a perfectly valid
design practice.
The OP isn't doing interface augmentation by deriving from std::vector<Point>.
And that's not what you were talking about, your statement about "the only time
it is unwise to use public inheritance", quoted above.
I.e. you're now attacking a strawman argument or a couple of strawman arguments.
Instead of inventive strawman argumentation you might reasonably and
straigtforwardly ask why, according to me, your earlier statement is commonly
regarded as bullshit.
As opposed to strawman argumentation, which usually leads to negative outcomes,
such questioning might prove the label-affixer (i.e. here me) wrong, or you
could learn something, or whatever, but mostly positive outcomes from asking.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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