From: Christoph Date: 2002-09-20T05:42:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Is better to subclass or to add methods to an existing class? "Paul Brannan" .... > 1) He is right that adding methods to an already-defined class is > generally a bad idea. There are some valid reasons to do that, but > 99% of the time there is an alternative. Well I generally try to avoid this too - but I don't believe that there is a very strong case against this (well as long as your code isn't intended as an extension for general consumption). /Christoph