Bridge Pattern / Indirection
Kind: tension
Record: tension:bridge-pattern-indirection
Canonical: Schema
"bridge-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Indirection" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Indirection" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Proxy Pattern / Transparency / Debugging and before Decorator Pattern / Stack Debugging.