Remove Pattern Shell

Kind: technique

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: lexicon:remove-pattern-shell

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for deleting the structure of a pattern whose forces are absent, leaving the plain code it wrapped.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Architecture Test and before Duplicate Until the Pattern Stabilizes.

Category

• Architecture Review Evolution Governance

Refactors

• Pattern Cargo Cult
• First-Principles Design

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts