Peter Miller wrote: > Ob joke: C++ itself is an anti-pattern. > Now that we have that out of the way.... > > I pattern I'm seeing a great deal of lately is to define a class (say, a > GUI application) and then for each device it talks to, use multiple > inheritance to add the device handling into the application. > > That is, a bunch of "has a" relationships masquerading as "is a" > relationships.
I think this could be a great pattern for proprietary software, but I'd granularize it based on features rather than devices - just declare an application that inherits the features that the client has paid for or that are part of the product sku being built.
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