Deconstructing Inheritance

by LucTeo on April 5, 2020

Another article I wrote appears in Overload: Deconstructing Inheritance.

The article tries to perform a critique of Inheritance as it is present in mainstream OOP. We look from multiple points of views on the Inheritance relationship, and we show that, at a closer inspection, it doesn’t reach up to the promises it makes. The article touches the simple problem of the Rectangle and Square, it discusses the parallel with the is-a relationship, and it shows how the Liskov Substitution Principle runs against inheritance.

To find our more, I encourage the reader to check the Overload 156 issue to find the article:

Keep truthing!