[fpc-devel] Interface delegation fix: backport to FPC 2.4.2 ...?

[Matt Emson]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Matt Emson het geskryf:
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>> In my experience, often badly implemented and regularly abused.
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> Then whoever wrote that code you looked at has no clue what they were doing
> and has a near zero understanding of design patterns or OOP.
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No. The problem with Patterns is that you need to embrace or reject. 
There's no middle ground.

>> Patterns take extreme discipline.
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> On the contrary, design patterns are everywhere,

Ah, yes. The old retro-fit argument. Name it and it shall be "so". You 
guys crack me up ;-)

Patterns take extreme discipline because unless you adhere to them, your 
code gets incredibly convoluted. Been there, seen it. Seen people use 
them religiously, find a situation where performance tanked and use 
unholy hacks to get around the issues. Again - they are fine, so long as 
the development team wholeheartedly embraces them. Otherwise they are an 
incredibly fine way to shoot yourself in the foot.