# Workaround for traditional inheritance features in object-oriented languages

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workaround-for-traditional-inheritance-features-in-object-oriented-languages/1195>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** inheritance, structtypes\
**Created:** [December 29, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workaround-for-traditional-inheritance-features-in-object-oriented-languages/1195 "2016-12-29T02:25:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/workaround-for-traditional-inheritance-features-in-object-oriented-languages/1195/40 "2017-01-07T14:59:28Z")

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> [@juliohm](#):
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> I support the idea of shallow hierarchies too, it makes code more “reusable” in a sense. I just don’t know to what extent they can represent the complexity of moderately large software.

They can build Julia. Well, actually no inheritance was used there, of course.

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