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. ;-) CU, Ingo