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Use and Misuse of Patterns Caution!
A pattern is a solution to a problem in a context. If the context is missing, don’t apply the pattern
The context for the Strategy pattern is that you need to swap strategies dynamically or that you need to be able to easily add new strategies that are not yet known. If this context is missing, simply subclass the Context class and hardcode the known strategies to avoid the runtime overhead of the strategy pattern