Re: Composition instead of inheritance

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: Composition instead of inheritance
Date	2011-04-28 20:57 -0700
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On 29 Apr 2011 02:31:15 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> I thought that was delegation. As in, when one object delegates some or 
> all of it's behaviour to another object:
>

	"Delegation" sounds more like functional behavior whereas
"composition" is more the static organization -- that is, which objects
are components of the overall object.

	Just a gut feeling...

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Re: Composition instead of inheritance Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-04-28 15:35 -0700
  Re: Composition instead of inheritance Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-29 02:31 +0000
    Re: Composition instead of inheritance Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-29 13:50 +1000
    Re: Composition instead of inheritance Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-04-28 20:57 -0700

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