Red Echo

March 11, 2008

This essay arguing that “inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed” puts its case a bit strongly for my taste but articulates a fundamentally solid point. One thing I’ve always liked about RB is its stylistic preference for shallow class hierarchies.

2 Comments

  1. This guy has just discovered that plain old single inheritance sucks. Not news.

    But this kind of thing is why I keep arguing that RB needs mixins.

    Comment by Guy — March 11, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

  2. I disagree; his point, as I take it, is that composition is preferable to inheritance. Not news. For some other discussion of this blog post, see http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/03/is-is-has.html .

    Comment by charles — March 13, 2008 @ 11:29 am