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by karmakaze 1202 days ago
The diamond example "TA extends Student, Teacher" seems worse than OO or direct composition. It's either a compiler error or share everything that overlaps.

I would have made the sharing explicit during composition--a Teacher or Student is given the Person instance when constructed, so sharing or not sharing is decided at composition time. To enforce consistency use helper/static methods.

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Not sure what you’re getting at, sharing here does for you exactly what you would do with explicit composition.