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Attuned choice by attuned choice, your entire life is a form of self-expression. You exist as a creative being in a creative universe. A singular work of art.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
So here are the benefits of inheritance:
• Unlike composition, you can pass the subclass into functions expecting the parent class.
• Unlike interfaces, you can reuse code from the parent class in the child class.
So, here’s when you want to use inheritance: **when you need to instantiate both the parent and child classes and pass them to the same functions.** That’s it. That’s the use case.
When to Prefer Inheritance to Composition
Hillel Wayne
In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only possible because olive groves have been replanted to fit the shape of the harvesting machines. A grove planted for machine harvesting [looks nothing like](https://fat.gold/guide/#growing-olives) a grove planted for human harvesting.
A Year of New Avenues
Robin Sloan
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