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[gang-of-4-patterns] query on composite pattern

From: rajesh AT cs.iitm.ernet.in
To: gang-of-4-patterns AT cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: [gang-of-4-patterns] query on composite pattern
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:36:27 +0530 (IST)
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Hello,

1) What is the exact problem the composite pattern is addressing?
Can I formulate it(problem) like , how do we represent part-whole
hierarchies and to treat individual objects and compositions uniformly?
(is this the problem ?)

2) Assume that we don't have composite pattern.How do we achieve the
solution for the problem that the composite pattern is addressing.In other
words, What is the bad smell for composite design pattern in the code that
doesn't have any pattern based solution? or What is the naive solution for
the problem of composite design pattern?

looking forward for reply.

regards
rajesh

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[gang-of-4-patterns] query on composite pattern, rajesh, 11/19/2003
- RE : [gang-of-4-patterns] query on composite pattern, Mikal Ziane, 11/20/2003
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- Re: [gang-of-4-patterns] query on composite pattern, Prantor . Bora, 11/20/2003