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by jdmichal
3625 days ago
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OK, I should have stated that inheritance is a bundling of multiple tools, composition and default implicit virtual method routing being two of them. It also creates an is a relationship, which in my version of an inheritance-less world would be handled explicitly via interfaces, which I included in my original "toolbox". EDIT: Notice how I can enforce the invariants of `Square`, while composing a `Rectangle` and implementing `IRectangle`. This works because composition allows me to encapsulate the problematic setter methods of `Rectangle`, which is not something I can do if I inherit it. class Square implements IRectangle {
private final Rectangle rectangle;
public Square(final double size) {
this.rectangle = new Rectangle(size, size);
}
public double getWidth() {
return this.rectangle.getWidth();
}
public double getHeight() {
return this.rectangle.getHeight();
}
public double getSize() {
return this.rectangle.getWidth();
}
public double setSize(final double size) {
this.rectangle.setWidth(size);
this.rectangle.setHeight(size);
}
}
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