Re: Confusion With Inheritance

On 25 Aug 2005 19:45:31 -0700, "Brad" <bradwebber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Let's say the Product class does survive as a class. Am I correct in
>assuming that you would discourage subclassing SkinCare products and
>Makeup products and instead design a single Product class that had
>UNDEFINED attributes depending on the type of product that was
>instantiated?

No, not at all. The point is that I don't know what the partitioning
of the system ought to be because I don't know what the system does.
Until I know the behavior of the system, speculating on an object
model is fruitless.



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