Chapter 2, Problem 1R

Explanation of Solution

Disadvantages:

• The following are the potential efficiency disadvantages of keeping very deep inheritance trees,
  • Whenever an instance of a deep class “Z” in an inheritance tree is created, the chaining of constructors indicates the capacity to develop a long set of function calls.
  • To use a particular version of certain function, the algorithm should search through a large number of classes before it searches the right one to use.