Design patterns
Categories
- Structural
- Behavioural
- Creational
Factory
The system configuration is stored in an external text file and the system is constructed at runtime.
Flyweight / singleton / memento
Hardware interface classes will typically be a const register map which is a
flyweight pattern. This is also an example of a singleton pattern as it's only
initialised once regardless of how many instances are created. Additionally if
registers are actually wired to discrete lines they might be read-only so the
memento pattern is used to store the internal state.
Reflection
"In computer science, reflection is the ability of a process to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior."
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_(computer_programming)