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> enumerating derived classes at compile-time is usually a bad design Depends on what kinds of guarantees you want. At the extreme, you can make everything in

• seemslegit 7y ago
  > enumerating derived classes at compile-time is usually a bad design did you deliberately omit the word 'exhaustively' here ? late-bound != dynamically typed, that's exactly the point - you wish to preserve to the ability to have types loaded at run time without knowing their exact type at compile time while still enjoying strong type guarantees. We can do without run-time loading scenarios at all and still see why this is bad, if one adds a derived class to the code base and then has to address it in a bunch of places rather than have all the new functionality localized to the class then it's a smell