[setup PATCH] next_dialog micropatch (2)

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> 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
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