Re: Noob question - StringBuffer
Stefan Ram wrote:
A kind of composition is inheritance. By
class A { int a; int b; }
class B extends A { int c; }
an ?object of class A? is part of every object of class B.
Sort of. There isn't actually a separate "object of class A" that is a part
of class B, but there is a core part of B that expresses its "A-ness", so the
analogy holds to a point.
However,
A kind of composition is inheritance.
I see your point, but the technical term "composition" is used in
contradistinction to "inheritance", as in "Item 14: Favor composition over
inheritance" in Joshua Bloch's seminal /Effective Java/.
"Composition" refers to the literal containment of an object reference as a
member, which inheritance doesn't actually do. Inheritance models the 'is-a'
relation, where the child-type object literally is an instance of the parent
type. Composition models the 'has-a' relation, where the composing class
instance actually has an attribute of the composed type.
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