Rainer Deyke wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Well I use it sometimes too, but it's so fraught with peril that
virtually all coding standards I've ever seen, all books and magazine
articles on the topic, all pundits, say one thing: don't. Better use
composition.
My take on composition vs inheritance is very simple: always use
composition, unless you absolutely need inheritance. Sometimes I
absolutely need inheritance, and D isn't giving it to me.
I don't care about your coding standards. I know how to use C++. I
have my own rules about how to use it safely and effectively, rules that
I have spent a lifetime refining.
Whether we like it or not, programming has a large social component.
Andrei
