• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    65·
    4 hours ago

    I’ll say this now.

    Inheritance is the most misused capability of OOP which programmers think makes their code look smart, but most of the time just makes a giant fucking mess.

    • red_tomato@lemmy.world
      42·
      4 hours ago

      Hold on, I’m in the middle of drawing an inheritance graph so I know how Dog is related to AircraftCarrier.

      • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
        35·
        4 hours ago
        public interface ICanTravelThroughTheAir
{

}

public class Flea : ICanTravelThroughTheAir
{

}

public class AircraftCarrier
{
  private readonly List<ICanTravelThroughTheAir> _aircraft = new();

  public void AddAircraft(ICanTravelThroughTheAir flyingThing)
  {
    _aircraft.Add(flyingThing);
  }
}

public class Dog : AircraftCarrier
{
    public void Woof()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Bitch I'm an aircraft carrier!");
    }
}

public static class Program
{
  public int Main(string[] args)
  {
    var dog = new Dog();
    
    for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
    {
        dog.AddAircraft(new Flea());
    }

    dog.Woof();
  }
}
    • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I learned about it in school and we didna few assignments for it

      But… never seen or heard anyone mention it outside of that

      I guess we can make up some nische vases

      I did hear it can be useful for video games though. But then again im sure people can manage fint without, as well

    • vapeloki@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      And polymorphism is the only way you could expose those composite Interfaces as bindings on C API based languages. And polymorphism is part of OOP.

      If we take the text book definition of OOP, then the kernel is OOP …