On 14.02.2007 14:32, Jim Wilson wrote:
Dear Wiki Devs,
I have a proposal for adding new hooks into the MW codebase, and I'm looking for feedback (positive and negative). The goal of the proposed changes is to give Extension Devs the ability to cleanly hijack just about any class in the system. Here are the details:
The standard pattern for ultimate class "hijacking" is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_factory_pattern
(I admit I have no idea if this would be applicable to MW :-)