favor-composition-over-inheritance

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The GoF's second principle of reusable OO design is 'Favor object composition over class inheritance' because composition keeps classes encapsulated, focused, and allows run-time flexibility.

Source: entries/2026/06/17/gof-oo-chunk-3.md

Depended on by

• behavioral-patterns-favor-composition
• composition-superiority-for-reuse
• gof-two-principles-ground-composition-paradigm-prerequisites

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