chain-of-responsibility-receipt-not-guaranteed

Status: IN

A key consequence of Chain of Responsibility is that receipt is not guaranteed: a request can traverse the entire chain and fall off the end without being handled by any object.

Source: entries/2026/06/17/gof-oo-chunk-15.md

Depended on by

• chain-flexibility-reliability-tradeoff
• recursive-bidirectional-processing-receipt-contingent
• recursive-subsystem-envelope-receipt-contingent

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