Beware inheritance over composition
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Whenever there is inheritance in an object-oriented design ask yourself two questions: 1) Am I a special type of the thing I'm inheriting from? and 2) Is the thing I'm inheriting from part of me? -- Riel's Heuristic 6.2, Arthur Riel 1996
