Design Patterns in .NET Core 3: Reusable Approaches in C# and F# for Object-Oriented Software Design

© Dmitri Nesteruk 2020

D. NesterukDesign Patterns in .NET Core 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6180-4_8

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Dmitri Nesteruk¹  

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St. Petersburg, c.St-Petersburg, Russia

 

The original version of this chapter was revised. A correction to this chapter is available at https://​doi.​org/​10.​1007/​978-1-4842-6180-4_​26

One very common situation that occurs when designing software is the so-called state space explosion where the number of related entities required to represent all possible states “explodes” in a Cartesian product fashion. For example, if you have circles and squares of different colors, you might end up with classes such as RedSquare/BlueSquare/RedCircle/BlueCircle and so on. Clearly nobody wants that.

What we do instead is we ...