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I don't find code reuse to be an unqualified virtue. The most hideous codebases I have been involved with all share an obsession with DRY that destroyed them. Most of them were also really obsessed with extensibility which didn't help. So while implementation inheritance can certainly help with code reuse, I consider that an anti-feature.


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