When is a subclass not right?

Rick Zantow rzantow at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 19:04:17 EDT 2006


Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in
news:mailman.9831.1156458295.27775.python-list at python.org: 

> At Thursday 24/8/2006 17:44, Chaz Ginger wrote:
> 
>>That is merely a logical use of OO after all when would a car and an
>>orange be the same?
> 
> Uh... what's the point...?
> By example, an orange inside a car would be modeled using 
> composition, never inheritance.

I've heard of cars that seem to inherit from the *lemon* class, though. Not 
a good object model, that.

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rzed



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