Re: computer-go: Sharing Go modules - ready for download

[Michael Naunton <mmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, a FlyWeight is sort of an non-object that we can make an object,
mainly because the naive OO implementation would have too much overhead.

I think you've hit the nail on the head:  DP names a bunch of things at
a slightly higher level of abstraction than pure data structures.  A
more cynical view might be:  name a few things we do all the time, and
name 15 hacks we need to do because we aren't using LISP :)

Darren Cook wrote:
> 
> >I was curious as to what a FlyWeight might be.  It seems to mean a
> >re-usable object.
> 
> It is one of the patterns (*) in "Design Patterns" (ISBN 0-201-63361-2).
> That is a book many describe as essential. I was a bit disappointed when I
> read it: it is full of the "bleeding obvious" (at least if you've got a few
> years programming experience).
> 
> But maybe it's biggest contribution is giving names to the patterns; I'm
> seeing the names crop up more and more in library documentation, etc.
> 
> Darren
> 
> *: "Flyweight: Use sharing to support large numbers of fine-grained objects
> efficiently."