in reply to Re^3: Altering the inheritance path of an object
in thread Altering the inheritance path of an object
For my (possibly unrelated ...?) purposes, it would need to be being able to build a more isolated test case situation, especially for adding instrumentation to an existing, complex but poorly-designed class structure ... without significantly changing the crufty old code, if at all.
I have noticed that heavily class-based code over time can wind up having a lot of “side effects,” for lack of a more proper term, which can make it difficult to deduce exactly which code-path is being taken. And, when you don’t yet really know whether any particular one of those paths are or are not reliable, that’s a big deal, at least in my situation. (I mostly deal with legacy code ... eight years old or more ... stuff that stinks but drives businesses.) I don’t want to “hijack” this particular thread into that direction, though, but I’m interested.