Designing with Delegates
Explore how Kotlin improves software design with delegation, replacing problematic inheritance. Understand delegation syntax, benefits over inheritance, and how Kotlin simplifies method routing while supporting flexible and maintainable code.
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In the previous chapter, you saw that Kotlin offers a different and safer way to use inheritance than Java. Likewise, Kotlin has much better support than Java for delegation. Before we dive into the syntax for delegation, we’ll take a small problem and design it using inheritance, to better understand the reasons to use delegation over inheritance. Soon ...