VisitAllChildren < SPL

---+ Visit All Children

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A design rule for implementing the =visit= methods of in a visitor design pattern. 

The rule is probably application specific in that it needs to be tailored to a specific visitor implementation and may not be desirable to use with all visitor implementations (the restriction it imposes may be too strong).

---++ Description

When implementing a visitor method for SomeSpecificClass in SomeSpecificClassHierarchy and SomeSpecificVisitor, ensure that you always call the visit method for each field of the visitedNode that also contains a visitable element.

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-- Main.KrisDeVolder - 05 May 2005

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Topic revision: r1 - 2005-05-05 - KrisDeVolder