> 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. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.
