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spaghetti inheritance
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2014-04-26 16:54:15 +01:00
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n. [encountered among users of object-oriented languages that use
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inheritance, such as Smalltalk] A convoluted class-subclass graph, often
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resulting from carelessly deriving subclasses from other classes just for
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the sake of reusing their code. Coined in a (successful) attempt to
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discourage such practice, through guilt-by-association with spaghetti code.
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