std.patterns: it was about time

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

BLS wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
> that's now something I appreciate ... Thanks!
> 
> I general patterns are not reusable as code, as developers must 
> implement them new, over and over again.
> I also thought that Mixins should be the key to implement a pattern 
> library.
> Let me name a library implemented pattern : Component.
> The question is now which GoF pattern could be implemented as Component, 
> or in other words are some are too much context-dependent ? ( Strategy, 
> Provider /non GoF/)
> 
> I found a very interesting PhD thesis regarding this topic.

Link?

Andrei