Comments on: Subclassing vs Interfaces http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/10/11/subclassing-vs-interfaces.html 20 minutes into the future... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:58:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Michael http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/10/11/subclassing-vs-interfaces.html#comment-56824 Michael Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:35:43 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/10/11/subclassing-vs-interfaces.html#comment-56824 <p>No this is certainly not new. It immediately reminded me of Alan Holub: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0801-toolbox.html</p> <p>Holub's point was that subclassing implementation classes is bad but interface inheritance is good. From the examples by Bernie, it looks like he would agree.</p> <p>You should write more about your "mix-ins" ideas. They seem similar to the GOF Strategy pattern that Bernie was clearly making use of.</p> No this is certainly not new. It immediately reminded me of Alan Holub: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0801-toolbox.html

Holub’s point was that subclassing implementation classes is bad but interface inheritance is good. From the examples by Bernie, it looks like he would agree.

You should write more about your “mix-ins” ideas. They seem similar to the GOF Strategy pattern that Bernie was clearly making use of.

]]> By: Bernie Sumption http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/10/11/subclassing-vs-interfaces.html#comment-56719 Bernie Sumption Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:38:09 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/10/11/subclassing-vs-interfaces.html#comment-56719 <blockquote> <p>Ignore the pretty flowers and butterflies on his blog… this is war and this guy is a warrior. </p> </blockquote> <p>Aw shucks, you just made my day.</p>

Ignore the pretty flowers and butterflies on his blog… this is war and this guy is a warrior.

Aw shucks, you just made my day.

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