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