Decorator Patten & Added Functionality

[Randy]

I am learning from the gof. It describes the Decorators as having
"added functionality".

Is it an acceptable practice to use new methods, specific to the
Decorator, or is "added functionality" limited to extending the
methods that are contained in the Component class?

Randy

 

[Randy]

I am learning from the gof. It describes the Decorators as having
"added functionality".

Is it an acceptable practice to use new methods, specific to the
Decorator, or is "added functionality" limited to extending the
methods that are contained in the Component class?

Randy

Sorry. I meant to put this in the Design Patterns ng.