But I don't think it's terribly useful; there are plenty of things that you could do that the people who coined the term would definitely not agree with. Inste

But I don't think it's terribly useful; there are plenty of things that you could do that the people who coined the term would definitely not agree with. Instead of inheritance, I could just copy and paste lots of different functions for different types. This would be different than inheritance but I don't think it would count as "composition", and it's certainly not something you should "prefer".