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Name: Visitor Design Pattern
ID: m26430
Language: English (en)
Summary: The Visitor Design Pattern enables one to decouple a data structure from the algorithms that process it.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: design, double-dispatch, object-oriented, pattern, programming, visitor
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Stephen Wong (swong@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Jul 1, 2009 11:39 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Jul 1, 2009 1:22 pm GMT-5

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Version: 1.1 Jul 1, 2009 1:22 pm GMT-5 by Stephen Wong
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