Sideways Overflow

Kind: pattern

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:sideways-overflow

Severity: mandatory

Scope: folder, filename

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern that resolves a naming collision with the filename's variant slot and resolves breadth with a sibling subject folder.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Bounded Nesting Depth and before One Concern Per File.

Requires

• Variant Slot
• Subject Folder

Reinforces

• Bounded Nesting Depth

Enables

• Glob Resolvability

Conflicts with

• Downward Nesting

Violated by

• Downward Nesting

Refactored by

• Take the Variant Slot
• Add a Sibling Subject Folder

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Linked from

• Placement is a grammar
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Severity levels

in this codebase

• parseFilename