inheritance-breaks-encapsulation

Status: IN

Inheritance breaks encapsulation because it exposes a subclass to details of its parent's implementation, binding them so that any parent implementation change forces the subclass to change.

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

Depended on by

• composition-superiority-for-reuse
• interface-vs-implementation-inheritance-distinct-roles
• template-method-safe-inheritance-reuse

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