Should we always use inheritance?
Inheritance and polymorphism are both very useful and really show off the power of object-oriented programming. However, in some circumstances, inheritance can cause more problems than it solves, and therefore, we should bear in mind a few rules of thumb when deciding whether or not to use it.
Could the same thing be achieved with a simpler solution?
Let's say we want to make a more powerful Enemy
object; it will have the same behavior a regular Enemy
object will have but with more health. One possible solution would be to derive a new class PowerEnemy
from Enemy
and give it double health. In this solution the new class will seem extremely sparse; it will use the functionality from Enemy
but with one different value. ...
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