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If you have two or more variables containing references to a single object, you can use any of them, on an equal basis, to send messages to the object. References have a many-to-one relationship to their objects. But if you assign a completely new object to a variable that’s already referring to an object, things change.

Based on my reading, the human brain is mostly a voracious consumer of patterns, a soft pudgy gray Pac-Man of concepts. Games are just exceptionally tasty patterns to eat up.

every decision results in a different version of the future. How many possible futures can your code support?

The bread-and-butter way to maintain state in an object is the instance variable. Class variables come in handy because they break down the dam between a class object and instances of that class. But by so doing, and especially because of their hierarchy-based scope, they take on a kind of quasi-global quality: a class variable isn’t global, but it

Blocks are your basic patterns for your sample size and type of garment. You will gener­ally create a basic skirt, bodice, torso, sleeve and pant pattern to be used in drafting each pattern in your collection.

A corollary of Conway’s Law is that an organization’s structures themselves can be constrained by the architectures that they designed many years earlier. And without intentional action, it’s a Catch-22. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them,” Einstein said. An example of this antipattern is a mi