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Inflexible Hierarchies

• How can one add operations to compound hierarchies?
• Example: AWT Component, Container, etc. form hierarchy
• Lots of operations: getPreferredSize,repaint
• Can't add new methods without modifying Component class
• VISITOR pattern solves this problem
• Each class must support one method
  void accept(Visitor v)

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