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One bad way might be each whole keeping a list of its parts. We will still
be able to traverse from a whole to its parts but not nicely.


                                                                              
                                                                 
                      
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[gang-of-4-patterns] query on composite pattern                               
                                                                              
                                                                 
                                                                              
                                                                 
                      11/19/2003 11:06 PM                                     
                                                                 
                                                                              
                                                                 
                                                                              
                                                                 




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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