Contents tagged with Software Craftsmanship
Ninja Coding: Composition over Inheritance–Even when Overriding
We’ve all heard it a million times – composition is favourable to inheritance. But inheritance can sometimes come with its own charms. One of its main attractions is to do some grunt work in a base class and have the ability to override that behaviour in a derived class. Framework developers favour an abstract base class as it leaves the potential to add features in the future without breaking all client code. The usual approach towards to polymorphism is achieved by declaring a method (or property) as virtual in the base class and overriding in the derived one(s). And this usually works out quite well (if you do find yourself using inheritance). This would typically look like this:
Ninja Coding: Code Comments and Self Explanatory Code
It’s been a while since I last blogged and thought I would get back into the habit by starting off a new category of posts. The title for this category is “Ninja Coding” and will cover topics from software craftsmanship and better design to very simple tricks and tricks. Today, we will be visiting code comments.