From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jtc@dimensional.com (Jim Cochrane) Subject: Re: Which wastes more time? (Was Re: Software landmines (loops)) Date: 1998/09/12 Message-ID: <6tcdrn$kjm@flatland.dimensional.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 390277271 References: <35F79B59.185AA03E@s054.aone.net.au> <6taqs1$45v@flatland.dimensional.com> <35F98A0E.B32DD9A7@s054.aone.net.au> Organization: Dimensional Communications NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:05:26 MDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <35F98A0E.B32DD9A7@s054.aone.net.au>, Loryn Jenkins wrote: >Jim Cochrane wrote: >> >> I think you can basically consider the Role pattern as a synonym (or alias) >> for the State pattern. > >They are definitely related, and look similar when diagrammed, but I >definitely think they are different 'patterns'. > >Loryn Jenkins Then I look forward to your write-up of the Role pattern, with its section on how it differs from the State pattern. :-) -- Jim Cochrane jtc@dimensional.com