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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)

Re: Classes, classes, classes! (and games) Reply #30 - Jan 5th, 2010, 5:10am   "The use of instanceof is frowned upon, as it bypasses the fundamentals of inheritance." Indeed, but the example was about unrelated classes. And as you wrote too: "if they are unrelated, why would you group them" The example you gave was about related classes, since they have draw() in common. That's where inheritance shines and indeed makes instanceof or switch unneeded.