Re: the Visitor Design Pattern


FluffyCat wrote:
> New on November 28, 2005 for www.FluffyCat.com PHP 5 Design Pattern
> Examples - the Visitor Pattern.
>
> In the Visitor pattern, one class calls a function in another class
> and passes an instance of itself. The called class has special
> functions for each class that can call it.
>
> With the visitor pattern, the calling class can have new operations
> added without being changed itself.
>
> http://www.fluffycat.com/SDCMSv2/PHP-Design-Patterns-Visitor/

A class that passes an instance of itself to another class means you
don't freaking know what you're doing. What's next? The spaghetti
design pattern?

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