2 Dec
2002
2 Dec
'02
11:26 p.m.
G'day all. On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:27:21AM +0100, John Hughes wrote:
There are patterns of that sort in our programs, which we would probably rather call design techniques, which aren't so easily captured by a higher-order function definition.
As a matter of interest, _why_ would we rather call them "design techniques" than "design patterns"? Is it just an aversion to buzzwords, or are they fundamentally different? Cheers, Andrew Bromage