-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When I've employed such patterns, I've been under the impression that they fell under the umbrella of "Factory". Perhaps, though, you are looking for a sub-pattern of Factory?
Maybe the obviousness of the answer is what is making you have a hard time finding it? :-) -- Andrew On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Trey Harris wrote: > There's a design pattern whose name I'm having trouble remembering (which > is making it hard for me to look up any literature on it). I'm hoping > maybe someone here can help me. > > I thought it was called the "recognizer" pattern, but Googling isn't > turning up anything by that name. Basically, you have a data blob, and a > list of candidate classes, and you throw the data at the classes one by > one until one of them "recognizes" the blob and returns an object > encapsulating it. > > In more advanced usage, you get responses back from the candidate classes > about how well they recognize the blob, and you eventually use the class > that can best recognize it, even if several can recognize it to some > extent. > > Sound familiar? > > Thanks, > > Trey > > _______________________________________________ > sw-design mailing list > [email protected] > http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sw-design > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCbjcDH8bbEWqt2qYRAjchAJ9ge9UP72vpAXFykTk7GmgI0vk25wCgq7+w 12hM2o0duAk3eIIfI03rWws= =2ipU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ sw-design mailing list [email protected] http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sw-design
