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RE: [setup PATCH] next_dialog micropatch (2)
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "Cygwin Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:50:20 -0500
- Subject: RE: [setup PATCH] next_dialog micropatch (2)
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:13, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >
> >> If we do add a class, it should probably be a thread class from which all
> of
> >> our threaded tasks can derive. Regardless, I don't see that any further
> >> cleanup will reverse these changes. I can see how it may involve changing
> >> the same lines to a third form, but that is not a reversal.
> >
> > Are you thinking of the (IIR the name C) the 'completion object'
> > pattern? That would work too.
>
> I have no idea what this means.
It's "Gang Of Four"-speak, though I'm not sure this is actually original Gang Of
Four, i.e. "Design Patterns: Elements Of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by
four guys and a foreward by Grady Booch. I don't recall running across it in
there.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.