On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Nicol�s Paez wrote:
Hi, I was looking at collection packages and I found that the class
Association inherits from Magnitude.
It is really strange for me because inheritance represent a "is-a" relation.
So I looked that the documentation of each of these classes:
*Association:* I represent a pair of associated objects--a key and a value.
My instances can serve as entries in a dictionary.
*Magnitude:* I'm the abstract class Magnitude that provides common protocol
for objects that have
the ability to be compared along a linear dimension, such as dates or times.
Subclasses of Magnitude include Date, ArithmeticValue, and Time, as well as
Character and LookupKey.
Based on this, I think this relation is conceptually WRONG.
If the idea is to reuse code then composition should be used instead of
inheritance.
What do you think?