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Fragile base class problem

What is the fragile base class problem?
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  1. 1A change to a base class can break subclasses in subtle, unforeseen ways even when the subclass code is untouched
  2. 2Base classes tend to crash under heavy production load whenever many subclasses exist at once
  3. 3Base classes simply cannot be declared abstract in most object-oriented programming languages
  4. 4Subclasses are unable to add any new methods beyond the ones that they inherit from the base

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