Null Object Pattern / Silent No-Op Risk
Kind: tension
Record: tension:null-object-pattern-silent-no-op-risk
Canonical: Schema
"null-object-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Silent No-Op Risk" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Silent No-Op Risk" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Memento Pattern / Memory Footprint and before Finite State Machine / State Explosion.