[rybosome]

That's a fair point, although long chains of forwarded methods could be indicative of poor design - writing inheritance via composition in much the same way that one may write Lisp via Java. Granted, it's very easy to say that this is a bad idea, but that's part of the art of good OO design. :-)

I ran into this at work recently when refactoring an inheritance hierarchy. My initial instincts led me towards many forwarding calls, but after taking some time to reflect on the problem further, I found that many were no longer needed given the smaller scope of each class.