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motorest on July 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Features of D That I Love

> You get about as much reuse from a set of re-usable functions as you get from inheriting implementations.

There's far more to inheritance that code reuse. For example, encapsulation, access control, and static type checking, etc.

zozbot234 on July 5, 2025 [–]

Encapsulation/access control and static type checking are great features, but you can have them without implementation inheritance.

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