Re: Child objects inheriting property values

I would not recommend having a Column object inherit from a Record object
unless they really are related.  Generally speaking, Record/Row objects are
not Column objects.  An interface wouldn't help you here either.

On Nov 20, 2007 7:28 AM, Adrian Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

>        class Column : Record
>        {
>                public Column()
>                {
>                        this.Delimeter = base.Delimeter;
>                }
>        }
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Kelly
> Sent: 20-November-2007 10:10
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> Subject: Child objects inheriting property values
>
> I have a hierarchy of objects that share some attributes, e.g. both my
> parent Record and Column objects have a columnDelimiter property.  I
> want
> this property on the Column object to default to the same property on
> the
> Record object, until specified on the Column object.  What is the best
> way
> to go about this?  I could give each Column a reference to the Record it
> belongs to, but this seems not quite right to me.  My other option is to
> have the Record act as a ColumnFactory, setting the columnDelimiter
> value on
> each Column it creates, until a set accessor on Column optionally
> overrides
> that default value.
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