Kinda - an instance of an OO subclass is a decorator around an instance of its superclass, so if you're using a language which has a good way of expressing decoration then that's usually better than using inheritance.

But as the other reply said, patterns are a language smell - the language needs to support that style and make it idiomatic. Otherwise, if you give people the choice between doing it right but verbosely and doing it wrong but more quickly, guess which one they'll choose. https://www.haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should...