Luca Fascione
On Wed, 26 Aug 2026, 18:42 David Kastrup, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In this case it would be a fairly full base class (there are quite few > members particular to only book or bookpart). I have no idea whether > that would make a difference regarding the undesirability. > I would call it "base" if it made not much sense to use it that level of the class hierarchy: it seems to me in this context you'd have book objects and bookpart objects flowing around, and that you'd love to be able to say "I just need to tell book-ish things apart from... other stuff" but you'd never want to make a book_base object per-se. This would be the criterion I'd use to select this naming pattern. L >
