Inheritance

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Anti-Patterns3

A subclass that inherits methods or data it does not want or use, often overriding them to do nothing, signaling a wrong inheritance relationship.

An inheritance hierarchy so deep that understanding behavior forces constant scrolling up and down between many classes to trace a single call.

A framework requiring subclass overrides to call the parent method, a fragile contract that breaks silently whenever a developer forgets the call.