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Represent an operation to be performed on the elements of an object structure. Visitor lets you define a new operation without changing the classes of the elements on which it operates.1

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  1. 1.

    Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, p. 366

  2. 2.

    www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

  3. 3.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dispatch

  4. 4.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_overloading

  5. 5.

    https://twitter.com/kdocki

  6. 6.

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-a.php

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Dockins, K. (2017). Visitor. In: Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2451-9_26

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