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How to solve an issue when a decorator needs variables from the base class?
I have a service class that does some magic. I want to introduce a new type of functionality - raise an event. I am absolutely sure that decorator pattern is great for this scenario. The problem is ...
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Why the industry prefer/use composition over inheritance? [duplicate]
I was having a discussion with few friends about inheritance and composition and what I learnt from that discussion is that the use of inheritance more or less condemned in industry nowadays and ...
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Composition over Inheritance, why not both?
I have this out of context scenario, where what I think is good practices leaves me in a situation of both implementing an interface, and using composition to do the implementation. Imagine the ...
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Base Class vs Common Member Class
Imagine I have two classes like this... public class SingleplayerGameSetup { public int Seed { get; private set; } public int AiNations { get; private set; } } public class ...
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How to replace inheritance with composition in this case?
I've recently read several articles about the advantages of the composition over inheritance. Their authors said that you can always replace inheritance with composition (to be precise, they say they ...
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Inheritance vs 'specification' by fields
I'm currently reading 'Head first design patterns' and I already have a few questions on the first chapter of the book. This chapter introduces the 'prefer composition over inheritance' design ...
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Alternatives to inheritance on complex structures?
I'm working on an ASP.NET Webforms project, using the MVP Pattern (which the presenters as you may know use a Page Controller pattern). I'm given a rather complex inheritance chain for my controllers. ...
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Why should one subclass instead of composite when using the Factory Method design pattern?
I'm currently learning about design patterns. I learned about the Factory Method pattern. This pattern means that in order to implement a factory to create objects, one should subclass the class that ...
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Inheritance versus Composition in a business application
I have a training management and tracking system, with a high level structure as follows: We have a Role1, e.g. Manager, Shift-boss, miner, etc. and a Candidate, training for that Role. The role has ...
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