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Inheritance by delegation..

Posted by Natraj Gujran on 21 Oct 1998, 7:34 PM

First, the shown method of substituting composition for inheritance is the standard way VB does inheritance (except,of course an 'implements' clause which forces the subclass to have all methods provided by the parent.
They call it 'inheritance by delegation' . I've seen developers snorting at this 'inferior' method of doing things... including me. :-)

More on the inheritance/delegation talk :

I was trying to answer the questions posed by the author
and came up with this

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• Inheritance Ben August 05, 2001 at 5:33 AM (0)