Re: final methods and classes
Rzeznik wrote:
On 12 Paz, 22:17, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Rzeznik wrote:
On 12 Paz, 21:32, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Another bit of useful advice from Effective Java: prefer
aggregation. No one said you can't re-use code, but inheritance,
particularly unintended inheritance, is not necessarily the best
way to do it.
You cannot really _prefer_ one to another in general because they
represent different relationships. If this Effective Java states it
exactly so then it is another example of how misleading this book
is.
I caution you not to judge the book by a two-word paraphrase.
Ok, you are right.
At any rate,
if all you want is to re-use code, that's not an is-a relationship.
What makes you think so? Consider SavedGame <- File. while it is clear
that every SavedGame is_a file you certainly do not want to expose
that fact to clients (if you did they could, let's say, save it
anywhere they like or overwrite contents blindly) while still retain
ability of working with files - sheer code re-use. Would you say that
SavedGame has_a File instead?
You said it yourself:: you don't want to expose to clients that SavedGame is
a File, because this will let them call arbitrary File methods on a saved
game. This you don't want to derive SavedGame from File, or, to say it
another way, there's no is-a relationship. What you would do instead is to
give SavedGame a field that's a File and delegate some of the SavedGame
methods to it (delete, possibly rename, etc.) That's precisely a has-a
relationship.
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