Maybe I am so naive, but what are the advantages of such Inheritance? The only thing I see is that in all your code of Association you can do "self " and access to all the behavior of Magnitude. But it is not that difficult to use composition, and write "self aMagnitude" replace aMagnitude for whatever name you want.
Cheers mariano 2010/10/22 Levente Uzonyi <le...@elte.hu> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Nicolás Paez wrote: > > Hi, I was looking at collection packages and I found that the class >> Association inherits from Magnitude. >> It is really strange for me because inheritance represent a "is-a" >> relation. >> >> So I looked that the documentation of each of these classes: >> >> *Association:* I represent a pair of associated objects--a key and a >> value. >> My instances can serve as entries in a dictionary. >> >> *Magnitude:* I'm the abstract class Magnitude that provides common >> protocol >> for objects that have >> the ability to be compared along a linear dimension, such as dates or >> times. >> Subclasses of Magnitude include Date, ArithmeticValue, and Time, as well >> as >> Character and LookupKey. >> >> Based on this, I think this relation is conceptually WRONG. >> If the idea is to reuse code then composition should be used instead of >> inheritance. >> >> What do you think? >> > > This was the original hierarchy: Magnitude -> LookupKey -> Association. > Someone removed LookupKey from the chain. This was LookupKey's comment: > > "I represent a key for looking up entries in a data structure. Subclasses > of me, such as Association, typically represent dictionary entries." > > > Levente > > > >> Saludos! >> Nico. >> blog: nicopaez.wordpress.com >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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