Ben Finney writes: > A pity, since the entire point of Design Patterns is to give us a > vocabulary of terms to use that enable these concepts to be communicated > *without* continually re-defining them. To that extent, then, they fail > their purpose.
Of course not! There will always be children ... I hope. The point of Design Patterns is to give a vocabulary that can be used in an "in group" context without any explanation at all, and in the stylized form This implementation follows the "Strategy" design pattern of Ralf, Joel, Yen-shih, and Gundarmambanagoong, which is ... which educates the young and allows the cognoscenti to daydream for a minute. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com