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With strategies for generating objects covered, we’re free now to look at some strategies for structuring classes and objects. I will focus in particular on the principle that composition provides greater flexibility than inheritance. The patterns I examine in this chapter are once again drawn from the Gang of Four catalog.
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Zandstra, M. (2016). Patterns for Flexible Object Programming. In: PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1996-6_10
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