Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2006-12-22 at 11:30:10 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > It's a common design pattern that an object knows its owner, and > > sends > > it a message on some special occurence. > Yeah, it's one aspect of the the "lazy developer" pattern, since one > could > avoid this kind of dependency by introducing a listener/observer > mechanism. > ;-) ;-) But seriously, that is the same thing (just that there is only one observer, but you don't know anything about it either beyond notifying it). Bye, Axel.