What term describes the following? a design guideline suggesting that building complex behavior by combining objects is often preferable to relying solely on class inheritance.

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This Hard Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) question asks: What term describes the following? a design guideline suggesting that building complex behavior by combining objects is often preferable to relying solely on class inheritance. The correct choice is C. Composition over inheritance. Read the options below, commit to one, then use the explanation to see why that choice holds and why the others do not.

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Correct answer

C. Composition over inheritance

Explanation

Composition over inheritance (option C) is the accepted answer to “What term describes the following? a design guideline suggesting that building complex behavior by combining objects is often preferable to relying solely on class inheritance.”. Option A (Destructor) does not fit this question. Option B (Instance variable) does not fit this question. Option D (Super keyword) does not fit this question. For this Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) question, the accepted answer is Composition over inheritance.

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