<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">We get taught to subclass something when we need an object with custom behavior, but that isn’t always the best plan. With simple (VM-primitive) things, you’re better off creating a class and then sticking the smallint in an instance variable. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Basically: there’s usually not a need to subclass classes that represent primitive values. Just use instances of them in your own class based on Object or anything you want to inherit from. </div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 26, 2019, at 11:55 PM, Alex Schenkman via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br><br>I cut out some graphics from the below for bandwidth purposes. 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