Posted by FluffyCat on 10/27/63 11:33

Sure, I guess you could claim visitor is a euphemism for prostitute.
Keep in mind that these are inherently two consenting objects, and
what they are doing is legal under the laws of PHP 5 and the Zend
Engine. OO-phobe sentiment will only keep you mired in procedural
programming.



On 29 Nov 2005 22:46:39 -0800, "Chung Leong"
<chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Oli Filth wrote:
>> I think the OP has phrased this badly. He actually has an object
>> passing this ($this) to a method in another object, which is hardly
>> uncommon practice in most OO languages (e.g. registering a callback
>> interface with a child object).
>
>That's very different from object A calling a method of object B which
>in turns invokes methods on object A now isn't it? What the OP
>described can be more aptly called the prostitution design pattern.
>Object J has a need that it cannot satisfy, so it visits object H to
>get its private part operated upon. It's sick. It's immoral. Objects
>should only play around with their own thingies.

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