Avoid Parallel Hierarchies

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added by KodefuGuru
9/29/2011 8:53:11 AM

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In Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck, he mentions a use of inheritance that can be particularly troublesome: parallel hierarchies. He uses an example of this from an insurance system.

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dpeterson
9/29/2011 9:05:11 AM
A nice example of the power of generics. I think most programmers go no further than generic collections and really miss out on their best use-cases.