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From: Loryn Jenkins <loryn@s054.aone.net.au>
Subject: Re: Which wastes more time? (Was Re: Software landmines (loops))
Date: 1998/09/10
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> >The Role Pattern (very similar to Gamma et al's State Pattern) just
> >described here doesn't necessarily model 'the real world'. I think it
> >does model our 'concept of the world', according to a certain
> >classification theory.
> 
> Do you have a formal definiton of the "Role Pattern"?

No, I don't. If no one has written it up by the time I finish my thesis,
I'll do it.

Loryn Jenkins