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The Proxy Pattern

by Rainer Grimm

From the article:

A proxy controls access to another object, allowing you to perform additional operations before or after you access the original object. Sound familiar?

Which idiom is characteristic of C++? Right: RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization). RAII is the C++ way to implement the Proxy Pattern. Here are the facts about the Proxy Pattern. ...