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Scenario: Emulate Multiple Inheritance
A team attempts to stack unrelated behavior with deep extends chains and ad-hoc overrides. The hierarchy compiles but ownership and method contracts become fragile, causing regressions when callbacks and helper logic evolve.
Scenario
A team attempts to stack unrelated behavior with deep extends chains and ad-hoc overrides. The hierarchy compiles but ownership and method contracts become fragile, causing regressions when callbacks and helper logic evolve.
What to focus on
Increase in override regressions and code-review rejects tied to brittle inheritance coupling.
Common traps
Using deep inheritance ladders to mimic multiple implementation inheritance.
Mixing role contracts and mutable helper state in one base class.
Skipping interface-class contracts and composition boundaries.