Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:51, Max Bowsher wrote: > >>>> Maybe RECTWrapper >>> >>> Exactly. >> >> Reviewing my suggestion, I don't like it any more. After all, is doesn't >> wrap - it inherits. > > The Adapter pattern (Design Patterns, pg 139) a.k.a. Wrapper uses > inheritance.
But RECTFOO is a completely different sort of thing to SIDWrapper/HANDLEWrapper. Surely we shouldn't call it something that suggests resemblance? However, I'm starting to think this discussion could rumble on for all eternity, and its not a matter of vital importance. Please call it to a halt with a maintainer's decree if you get bored with it. Max.
