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27Classes and InstancesThis book is a work in progress!×If you see a mistake, find something unclear, or have a suggestion, please let me know. To learn when new chapters are up, join the mailing list:(I post about once a month. Don’t worry, I won’t spam you.)Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?Donna Tartt, The GoldfinchThe last area left to implement in clox is object-oriented programming. OOP is a bundle of intertwined features: classes, instances, fields, methods, initializers, and inheritance. Using relatively high-level Java, we packed all that into two chapters. Now that we’re coding in C, which feels like building a model of the Eiffel tower out of toothpicks, we’ll devote three chapters to covering the same territory. This makes for a leisurely stroll through the implementation. After …