Using “Base” in a Class Name

Question

Is it acceptable to use the word \'Base\' in a class name which is a the bottom of the inheritance tree?

I have always found this a bit of a cop-out, just wondering

Answer 1

I side with "no" for exactly the refactoring reason you've cited.

A class should be named after what it logically represents, and nothing but the Object class is really really Base. Metaphysics ftw :)

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re: Option B, there is nothing confusing about

namespace MySpecificNamespace
{
  MyClass: MyCommonNamespace.MyClass
  {
  }
}