On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 13:51, Thomas Beale wrote: > The way all > the Eiffel stuff works on every platform is simply bridge pattern all > over the place, plus platform specific binding libraries.
Ah, yes. Gang of Four patterns are (largely) hacks required by static typing languages to work around their limitations... with dynamic typing in Ruby, Smalltalk, Python, (etc) most of the patterns are redundant (or at least, trivial to implement). Just joking...at least partially. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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